Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.
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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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In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
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Nearly all drugs pass into human breast milk. How often a drug is taken influences the amount of drug that will pass into the milk. Medications taken 30 to 60 minutes before breastfeeding are likely to be at peak blood levels when the baby is nursing.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.