Facts in "Medical" Category
#2539 - Medical Fact     7  People who have never been married are seven and a half times more likely than married people to be admitted to a psychiatric facility. |
| #2540 - Medical Fact 1 Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us. |
| #2541 - Medical Fact 4 "Soldiers disease" is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts. |
| #2542 - Medical Fact 4 Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates. |
| #2543 - Medical Fact 0 A study by researcher Frank Hu and the Harvard School of Public Health found that women who snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. |
| #2544 - Medical Fact 3 Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman is considered to be the godfather of the modern vaccine era. Having created nearly three dozen vaccines - more than any other scientist, Hilleman is also credited with saving more lives than any other scientist. Probably best known for his preventive vaccine for mumps, Hilleman has also developed vaccines for measles, rubella, chicken pox, bacterial meningitis, flu and hepatitis B. |
| #2545 - Medical Fact 0 If you combined all the muscles in an average human in to one muscle, the force it would be capable of producing is about 2,000 tonnes. |
| #2546 - Medical Fact 3 According to the Journal of American Medical Association, as of 1998, more than 100,000 Americans die annually from adverse reactions to prescription drugs. |
| #2547 - Medical Fact 7 You can see a candle flame from 50 Kilometers on a clear, dark night. You can hear the tick of a watch from 6 meters in very quiet conditions. You can taste one gram of salt in 500 liters of water (.0001M). You can detect one drop of perfume diffused throughout a three-room apartment. You can detect the wing of a bee falling on your cheek from a height of one centimeter. |
| #2548 - Medical Fact 3 Gold salts are sometimes injected into the muscles to relieve arthritis. |
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