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Adult head lice are gray, about ? inch long, and often have a tiny dot on their backs. A female can lay between 50 and 150 eggs within the several weeks that she is alive. They feed on human blood.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
There are major differences in the metabolism of morphine and the illegal drug heroin. Morphine mostly produces its CNS effects through m-receptors, and at k- and d-receptors. Heroin has a slight affinity for opiate receptors. Most of its actions are due to metabolism to active metabolites (6-acetylmorphine, morphine, and morphine-6-glucuronide).