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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
In the United States, congenital cytomegalovirus causes one child to become disabled almost every hour. CMV is the leading preventable viral cause of development disability in newborns. These disabilities include hearing or vision loss, and cerebral palsy.
When taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors, people should avoid a variety of foods, which include alcoholic beverages, bean curd, broad (fava) bean pods, cheese, fish, ginseng, protein extracts, meat, sauerkraut, shrimp paste, soups, and yeast.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.