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After 5 years of being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, one every three patients will no longer be able to work.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
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.
Since 1988, the CDC has reported a 99% reduction in bacterial meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae, due to the introduction of the vaccine against it.