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The National Institutes of Health have supported research into acupuncture. This has shown that acupuncture significantly reduced pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee, when used as a complement to conventional therapies.
Vaccines cause herd immunity. If the majority of people in a community have been vaccinated against a disease, an unvaccinated person is less likely to get the disease since others are less likely to become sick from it and spread the disease.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.