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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
The first monoclonal antibodies were made exclusively from mouse cells. Some are now fully human, which means they are likely to be safer and may be more effective than older monoclonal antibodies.
Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.