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No drugs are available to relieve parathyroid disease. Parathyroid disease is caused by a parathyroid tumor, and it needs to be removed by surgery.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Hippocrates noted that blood separates into four differently colored liquids when removed from the body and examined: a pure red liquid mixed with white liquid material with a yellow-colored froth at the top and a black substance that settles underneath; he named these the four humors (for blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile).