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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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.
Nearly all drugs pass into human breast milk. How often a drug is taken influences the amount of drug that will pass into the milk. Medications taken 30 to 60 minutes before breastfeeding are likely to be at peak blood levels when the baby is nursing.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
Blood in the urine can be a sign of a kidney stone, glomerulonephritis, or other kidney problems.