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Many of the drugs used by neuroscientists are derived from toxic plants and venomous animals (such as snakes, spiders, snails, and puffer fish).
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
About 80% of major fungal systemic infections are due to Candida albicans. Another form, Candida peritonitis, occurs most often in postoperative patients. A rare disease, Candida meningitis, may follow leukemia, kidney transplant, other immunosuppressed factors, or when suffering from Candida septicemia.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.