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Eating carrots will improve your eyesight. Carrots are high in vitamin A (retinol), which is essential for good vision. It can also be found in milk, cheese, egg yolks, and liver.
As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.