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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.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all women age 65 years of age or older should be screened with bone densitometry.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.