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Immunoglobulin injections may give short-term protection against, or reduce severity of certain diseases. They help people who have an inherited problem making their own antibodies, or those who are having certain types of cancer treatments.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
Asthma-like symptoms were first recorded about 3,500 years ago in Egypt. The first manuscript specifically written about asthma was in the year 1190, describing a condition characterized by sudden breathlessness. The treatments listed in this manuscript include chicken soup, herbs, and sexual abstinence.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.