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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
If you use artificial sweeteners, such as cyclamates, your eyes may be more sensitive to light. Other factors that will make your eyes more sensitive to light include use of antibiotics, oral contraceptives, hypertension medications, diuretics, and antidiabetic medications.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.