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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
Patients who have been on total parenteral nutrition for more than a few days may need to have foods gradually reintroduced to give the digestive tract time to start working again.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
Fatal fungal infections may be able to resist newer antifungal drugs. Globally, fungal infections are often fatal due to the lack of access to multiple antifungals, which may be required to be utilized in combination. Single antifungals may not be enough to stop a fungal infection from causing the death of a patient.