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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
Signs of depression include feeling sad most of the time for 2 weeks or longer; loss of interest in things normally enjoyed; lack of energy; sleep and appetite disturbances; weight changes; feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, or worthlessness; an inability to make decisions; and thoughts of death and suicide.
Vampire bats have a natural anticoagulant in their saliva that permits continuous bleeding after they painlessly open a wound with their incisors. This capillary blood does not cause any significant blood loss to their victims.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
After 5 years of being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, one every three patients will no longer be able to work.