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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
Eat fiber! A diet high in fiber can help lower cholesterol levels by as much as 10%.
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.