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Historic treatments for rheumatoid arthritis have included gold salts, acupuncture, a diet consisting of apples or rhubarb, nutmeg, nettles, bee venom, bracelets made of copper, prayer, rest, tooth extractions, fasting, honey, vitamins, insulin, snow collected on Christmas, magnets, and electric convulsion therapy.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
The newest statin drug, rosuvastatin, has been called a superstatin because it appears to reduce LDL cholesterol to a greater degree than the other approved statin drugs.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").