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The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
Anesthesia awareness is a potentially disturbing adverse effect wherein patients who have been paralyzed with muscle relaxants may awaken. They may be aware of their surroundings but unable to communicate or move. Neurologic monitoring equipment that helps to more closely check the patient's anesthesia stages is now available to avoid the occurrence of anesthesia awareness.
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.
Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.