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A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
Most strokes are caused when blood clots move to a blood vessel in the brain and block blood flow to that area. Thrombolytic therapy can be used to dissolve the clot quickly. If given within 3 hours of the first stroke symptoms, this therapy can help limit stroke damage and disability.
Hip fractures are the most serious consequences of osteoporosis. The incidence of hip fractures increases with each decade among patients in their 60s to patients in their 90s for both women and men of all populations. Men and women older than 80 years of age show the highest incidence of hip fractures.