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Patients should never assume they are being given the appropriate drugs. They should make sure they know which drugs are being prescribed, and always double-check that the drugs received match the prescription.
Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
Blood in the urine can be a sign of a kidney stone, glomerulonephritis, or other kidney problems.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).