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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
Though Candida and Aspergillus species are the most common fungal pathogens causing invasive fungal disease in the immunocompromised, infections due to previously uncommon hyaline and dematiaceous filamentous fungi are occurring more often today. Rare fungal infections, once accurately diagnosed, may require surgical debridement, immunotherapy, and newer antifungals used singly or in combination with older antifungals, on a case-by-case basis.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%