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About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.
Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
There are major differences in the metabolism of morphine and the illegal drug heroin. Morphine mostly produces its CNS effects through m-receptors, and at k- and d-receptors. Heroin has a slight affinity for opiate receptors. Most of its actions are due to metabolism to active metabolites (6-acetylmorphine, morphine, and morphine-6-glucuronide).