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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
The most destructive flu epidemic of all times in recorded history occurred in 1918, with approximately 20 million deaths worldwide.
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
Though Candida and Aspergillus species are the most common fungal pathogens causing invasive fungal disease in the immunocompromised, infections due to previously uncommon hyaline and dematiaceous filamentous fungi are occurring more often today. Rare fungal infections, once accurately diagnosed, may require surgical debridement, immunotherapy, and newer antifungals used singly or in combination with older antifungals, on a case-by-case basis.