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Elderly adults are living longer, and causes of death are shifting. At the same time, autopsy rates are at or near their lowest in history.
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Most women experience menopause in their 50s. However, in 1994, an Italian woman gave birth to a baby boy when she was 61 years old.
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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system destroys its own healthy tissues. When this occurs, white blood cells cannot distinguish between pathogens and normal cells.
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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.