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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
Approximately one in three babies in the United States is now delivered by cesarean section. The number of cesarean sections in the United States has risen 46% since 1996.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.