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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
The lipid bilayer is made of phospholipids. They are arranged in a double layer because one of their ends is attracted to water while the other is repelled by water.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Risperdal, an adult antipsychotic drug, for the symptomatic treatment of irritability in children and adolescents with autism. The approval is the first for the use of a drug to treat behaviors associated with autism in children. These behaviors are included under the general heading of irritability and include aggression, deliberate self-injury, and temper tantrums.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.