Confidence votes 7.4K. Junior Olympic PoolsThe City of Irvine, CA qualifies that a Jr. Olympic pool is (in English dimensions) 75' long (min.), 5' deep, with 7' wide lanes, and an extra 1.5' at the end lanes. I'm still looking for more information to back this up. A Junior Olympic Pool is 25 meters long.
The most expensive drug in the U.S. is Soliris, from Alexion (ALXN). It costs $409,500 a year, and treats a rare disorder in which the immune system destroys red blood cells at night. Many of the most expensive drugs -- such as Soliris -- treat rare diseases that only a few hundred people suffer from. Those drugs aren't the real problem. Rather, it's the drugs in the $20,000 to $100,000 range, which mainly treat cancer and multiple sclerosis. Those diseases are very common in the elderly population.
April 20, 2011 -- The 10 most prescribed drugs in the U.S. aren't the drugs on which we spend the most, according to a report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.The institute is the public face of IMS, a pharmaceutical market intelligence firm.he 10 drugs on which we spent the most were: 1  Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering statin drug -- $7.2 billion. 2  Nexium, an antacid drug -- $6.3 billion. 3  Plavix, a blood thinner -- $6.1 billion. 4  Advair Diskus, an asthma inhaler -- $4.7 billion. 5  Abilify, an antipsychotic drug -- $4.6 billion.