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There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
Recent studies have shown that the number of medication errors increases in relation to the number of orders that are verified per pharmacist, per work shift.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.