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Historic treatments for rheumatoid arthritis have included gold salts, acupuncture, a diet consisting of apples or rhubarb, nutmeg, nettles, bee venom, bracelets made of copper, prayer, rest, tooth extractions, fasting, honey, vitamins, insulin, snow collected on Christmas, magnets, and electric convulsion therapy.
After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.
The newest statin drug, rosuvastatin, has been called a superstatin because it appears to reduce LDL cholesterol to a greater degree than the other approved statin drugs.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.