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Looking at the sun may not only cause headache and distort your vision temporarily, but it can also cause permanent eye damage. Any exposure to sunlight adds to the cumulative effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation on your eyes. UV exposure has been linked to eye disorders such as macular degeneration, solar retinitis, and corneal dystrophies.
When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.