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Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
Atropine was named after the Greek goddess Atropos, the oldest and ugliest of the three sisters known as the Fates, who controlled the destiny of men.
The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.