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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
Automated pill dispensing systems have alarms to alert patients when the correct dosing time has arrived. Most systems work with many varieties of medications, so patients who are taking a variety of drugs can still be in control of their dose regimen.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.