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Anesthesia awareness is a potentially disturbing adverse effect wherein patients who have been paralyzed with muscle relaxants may awaken. They may be aware of their surroundings but unable to communicate or move. Neurologic monitoring equipment that helps to more closely check the patient's anesthesia stages is now available to avoid the occurrence of anesthesia awareness.
To prove that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria and not by stress, a researcher consumed an entire laboratory beaker full of bacterial culture. After this, he did indeed develop stomach ulcers, and won the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.