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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
In Eastern Europe and Russia, interferon is administered intranasally in varied doses for the common cold and influenza. It is claimed that this treatment can lower the risk of infection by as much as 60–70%.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.