Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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Elderly adults are living longer, and causes of death are shifting. At the same time, autopsy rates are at or near their lowest in history.
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Blood in the urine can be a sign of a kidney stone, glomerulonephritis, or other kidney problems.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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The average older adult in the United States takes five prescription drugs per day. Half of these drugs contain a sedative. Alcohol should therefore be avoided by most senior citizens because of the dangerous interactions between alcohol and sedatives.