|
|
Vaccines cause herd immunity. If the majority of people in a community have been vaccinated against a disease, an unvaccinated person is less likely to get the disease since others are less likely to become sick from it and spread the disease.
Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
Persons who overdose with cardiac glycosides have a better chance of overall survival if they can survive the first 24 hours after the overdose.
ACTH levels are normally highest in the early morning (between 6 and 8 A.M.) and lowest in the evening (between 6 and 11 P.M.). Therefore, a doctor who suspects abnormal levels looks for low ACTH in the morning and high ACTH in the evening.
As many as 20% of Americans have been infected by the fungus known as Histoplasmosis. While most people are asymptomatic or only have slight symptoms, infection can progress to a rapid and potentially fatal superinfection.
![These two species of bedstraw grow predominately on different soil types: Galium saxatile (shown her](https://biology-forums.com/gallery/47/medium_33_17_02_12_5_28_58_1945647.jpeg)
![Shown here is Sigmund Freud in 1931 as he poses for a sculptor in Vienna, Austria. Although Freud ...](https://biology-forums.com/gallery/47/medium_660365_19_12_16_11_52_43_24338948.png)