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A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.
GI conditions that will keep you out of the U.S. armed services include ulcers, varices, fistulas, esophagitis, gastritis, congenital abnormalities, inflammatory bowel disease, enteritis, colitis, proctitis, duodenal diverticula, malabsorption syndromes, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cysts, abscesses, pancreatitis, polyps, certain hemorrhoids, splenomegaly, hernias, recent abdominal surgery, GI bypass or stomach stapling, and artificial GI openings.
Fungal nail infections account for up to 30% of all skin infections. They affect 5% of the general population—mostly people over the age of 70.