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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
Of the estimated 2 million heroin users in the United States, 600,000–800,000 are considered hardcore addicts. Heroin addiction is considered to be one of the hardest addictions to recover from.
Prostaglandins were first isolated from human semen in Sweden in the 1930s. They were so named because the researcher thought that they came from the prostate gland. In fact, prostaglandins exist and are synthesized in almost every cell of the body.