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Malaria mortality rates are falling. Increased malaria prevention and control measures have greatly improved these rates. Since 2000, malaria mortality rates have fallen globally by 60% among all age groups, and by 65% among children under age 5.
Nearly all drugs pass into human breast milk. How often a drug is taken influences the amount of drug that will pass into the milk. Medications taken 30 to 60 minutes before breastfeeding are likely to be at peak blood levels when the baby is nursing.
The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.