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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.