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The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Malaria mortality rates are falling. Increased malaria prevention and control measures have greatly improved these rates. Since 2000, malaria mortality rates have fallen globally by 60% among all age groups, and by 65% among children under age 5.
More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.