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Did you know?
The average older adult in the United States takes five prescription drugs per day. Half of these drugs contain a sedative. Alcohol should therefore be avoided by most senior citizens because of the dangerous interactions between alcohol and sedatives.
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.