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After 5 years of being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, one every three patients will no longer be able to work.
The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released reports detailing the deaths of infants (younger than 1 year of age) who died after being given cold and cough medications. This underscores the importance of educating parents that children younger than 2 years of age should never be given over-the-counter cold and cough medications without consulting their physicians.
Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.