All adults should have their cholesterol levels checked once every 5 years. During 2009–2010, 69.4% of Americans age 20 and older reported having their cholesterol checked within the last five years.
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By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
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Each year in the United States, there are approximately six million pregnancies. This means that at any one time, about 4% of women in the United States are pregnant.
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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
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Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
Furchgott's discovery that endothelial cells produce a vasodilating substance.
Experimental evidence of the effect of allelochemicals on plant production.