Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
Administration of the Rinne test.
The effective temperature, or black body temperature, of the Sun (5777 K) is the temperature a black