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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.
Approximately one in three babies in the United States is now delivered by cesarean section. The number of cesarean sections in the United States has risen 46% since 1996.
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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