A detailed history can be quite helpful in identifying the cause of fever and a rash. A history of recent travel, woodland or animal exposure, drug ingestion or contact with ill persons should be noted. The time of year can be a clue to certain diagnoses.2â4.
Oprah On Prescription Drugs: Americans 'Take Pills Like Candy' (VIDEO) Americans don't shy away from taking pills. According to IMS Health, an estimated 16 million people in the United States use painkillers, 5 million take sleep aids and 18 million rely on some form of antidepressants.
Cool it. Americans have gotten so used to chronic sleep deprivation maybe 95% or more of us no longer knows what it's like to feel fully alert, awake, and aware. You know common causes for not sleeping, from shift work to the national scourge of major depression, increasingly common as millions can't find work.