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Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Each year in the United States, there are approximately six million pregnancies. This means that at any one time, about 4% of women in the United States are pregnant.
A recent study has found that following a diet rich in berries may slow down the aging process of the brain. This diet apparently helps to keep dopamine levels much higher than are seen in normal individuals who do not eat berries as a regular part of their diet as they enter their later years.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.