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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.
Stevens-Johnson syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis syndrome are life-threatening reactions that can result in death. Complications include permanent blindness, dry-eye syndrome, lung damage, photophobia, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, permanent loss of nail beds, scarring of mucous membranes, arthritis, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Many patients' pores scar shut, causing them to retain heat.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").