Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
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Women are two-thirds more likely than men to develop irritable bowel syndrome. This may be attributable to hormonal changes related to their menstrual cycles.
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Drug-induced pharmacodynamic effects manifested in older adults include drug-induced renal toxicity, which can be a major factor when these adults are experiencing other kidney problems.
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About one in five American adults and teenagers have had a genital herpes infection—and most of them don't know it. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those people who do not have genital herpes.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
Structure of a lymph node
Lung cancer. Photograph of part of a lung removed after death. The yellow area is a large tumor and
Two areas of reduced cortical volume and one area of increased cortical volume observed in people ...
(a) The phagocytic process, beginning in the upper left with bacterial attachment and phagocytic ...
Adolescent girls reach adult height sooner than boys because their bones grow more rapidity
Medial view of left cerebral hemisphere & Superolateral view of thalamus