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Drugs are in development that may cure asthma and hay fever once and for all. They target leukotrienes, which are known to cause tightening of the air passages in the lungs and increase mucus productions in nasal passages.
The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.