More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.
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The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
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The effects of organophosphate poisoning are referred to by using the abbreviations “SLUD” or “SLUDGE,” It stands for: salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, GI upset, and emesis.