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About 80% of major fungal systemic infections are due to Candida albicans. Another form, Candida peritonitis, occurs most often in postoperative patients. A rare disease, Candida meningitis, may follow leukemia, kidney transplant, other immunosuppressed factors, or when suffering from Candida septicemia.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA was discovered in 1961 in the United Kingdom. It if often referred to as a superbug. MRSA infections cause more deaths in the United States every year than AIDS.
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Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
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By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
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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.