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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
Nearly all drugs pass into human breast milk. How often a drug is taken influences the amount of drug that will pass into the milk. Medications taken 30 to 60 minutes before breastfeeding are likely to be at peak blood levels when the baby is nursing.
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
Only 12 hours after an egg cell is fertilized by a sperm cell, the egg cell starts to divide. As it continues to divide, it moves along the fallopian tube toward the uterus at about 1 inch per day.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.