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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
A serious new warning has been established for pregnant women against taking ACE inhibitors during pregnancy. In the study, the risk of major birth defects in children whose mothers took ACE inhibitors during the first trimester was nearly three times higher than in children whose mothers didn't take ACE inhibitors. Physicians can prescribe alternative medications for pregnant women who have symptoms of high blood pressure.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.