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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
Anesthesia awareness is a potentially disturbing adverse effect wherein patients who have been paralyzed with muscle relaxants may awaken. They may be aware of their surroundings but unable to communicate or move. Neurologic monitoring equipment that helps to more closely check the patient's anesthesia stages is now available to avoid the occurrence of anesthesia awareness.
Never take aspirin without food because it is likely to irritate your stomach. Never give aspirin to children under age 12. Overdoses of aspirin have the potential to cause deafness.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.