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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.
A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.