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There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
Warfarin was developed as a consequence of the study of a strange bleeding disorder that suddenly occurred in cattle on the northern prairies of the United States in the early 1900s.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Risperdal, an adult antipsychotic drug, for the symptomatic treatment of irritability in children and adolescents with autism. The approval is the first for the use of a drug to treat behaviors associated with autism in children. These behaviors are included under the general heading of irritability and include aggression, deliberate self-injury, and temper tantrums.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.