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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
Complications of influenza include: bacterial pneumonia, ear and sinus infections, dehydration, and worsening of chronic conditions such as asthma, congestive heart failure, or diabetes.
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.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%