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If you use artificial sweeteners, such as cyclamates, your eyes may be more sensitive to light. Other factors that will make your eyes more sensitive to light include use of antibiotics, oral contraceptives, hypertension medications, diuretics, and antidiabetic medications.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.
In the United States, congenital cytomegalovirus causes one child to become disabled almost every hour. CMV is the leading preventable viral cause of development disability in newborns. These disabilities include hearing or vision loss, and cerebral palsy.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.