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Blood in the urine can be a sign of a kidney stone, glomerulonephritis, or other kidney problems.
Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.
In 2006, a generic antinausea drug named ondansetron was approved. It is used to stop nausea and vomiting associated with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.
Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.