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The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
Immunoglobulin injections may give short-term protection against, or reduce severity of certain diseases. They help people who have an inherited problem making their own antibodies, or those who are having certain types of cancer treatments.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA was discovered in 1961 in the United Kingdom. It if often referred to as a superbug. MRSA infections cause more deaths in the United States every year than AIDS.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.