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About 3.2 billion people, nearly half the world population, are at risk for malaria. In 2015, there are about 214 million malaria cases and an estimated 438,000 malaria deaths.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
About one in five American adults and teenagers have had a genital herpes infection—and most of them don't know it. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those people who do not have genital herpes.