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Asthma occurs in one in 11 children and in one in 12 adults. African Americans and Latinos have a higher risk for developing asthma than other groups.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released reports detailing the deaths of infants (younger than 1 year of age) who died after being given cold and cough medications. This underscores the importance of educating parents that children younger than 2 years of age should never be given over-the-counter cold and cough medications without consulting their physicians.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.