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The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
Cocaine was isolated in 1860 and first used as a local anesthetic in 1884. Its first clinical use was by Sigmund Freud to wean a patient from morphine addiction. The fictional character Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be addicted to cocaine by injection.
Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
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.