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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.
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.
Multiple sclerosis is a condition wherein the body's nervous system is weakened by an autoimmune reaction that attacks the myelin sheaths of neurons.
The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
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