|
Author Question: The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program collects trends in crime volume and crime rate per 100,000 ... (Read 78 times) |
Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
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.
Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).