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It is widely believed that giving a daily oral dose of aspirin to heart attack patients improves their chances of survival because the aspirin blocks the formation of new blood clots.
The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.
A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.