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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.
Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
Amphetamine poisoning can cause intravascular coagulation, circulatory collapse, rhabdomyolysis, ischemic colitis, acute psychosis, hyperthermia, respiratory distress syndrome, and pericarditis.