Science Fact Finder

Diseases And Medical Conditions

1. Which disease is the most common? [answer]
2. Which disease is the deadliest? [answer]
3. What is the medical term for "heart attack"? [answer]
4. How are the forms of cancer classified? [answer]
5. What is meant by "vectors" in medicine? [answer]
6. What are the symptoms and signs of AIDS? [answer]
7. What is anorexia? [answer]
8. Who was Typhoid Mary? [answer]
9. How many people in America are estimated to have Alzheimer's disease? [answer]
10. What is Lou Gehrig's disease? [answer]
11. Why is Legionnaire's disease known by that name? [answer]
12. What is progeria? [answer]
13. How is Lyme disease carried? [answer]
14. Which species of mosquito causes malaria and yellow fever in humans? [answer]
15. What is the chemical composition of kidney stones? [answer]
16. What is necrotizing fasciitis? [answer]
17. How is the term "zoonosis" defined? [answer]
18. What is the composition of cigarette smoke? [answer]
19. How many types of herpes virus are there? [answer]
20. What is carpal tunnel syndrome? [answer]
21. What is the medical term for tennis elbow? [answer]
22. What is lactose intolerance [answer]
23. What is narcolepsy? [answer]
24. How are burns classified? [answer]
25. What causes warts? [answer]
26. What is dyslexia and what causes it? [answer]
27. Who were the "Blue People" in Appalachia? [answer]
28. What is the phobia of number thirteen called? [answer]

Health Hazards

1. What is the deadliest natural toxin? [answer]
2. What are the leading causes of death in the United States? [answer]
3. How long does it take to bleed to death? [answer]
4. How does the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classify carcinogens? [answer]
5. What percentage of the American public are smokers? [answer]
6. What is cholesterol and why are there "good" and "bad" varieties? [answer]
7. Why does the risk of cancer diminish rapidly after one quits the cigarette smoking habit? [answer]
8. Can ozone be harmful to humans? [answer]
9. Why is exposure to asbestos a health hazard? [answer]
10. What is the estimated radiation dose to which the average person in the United States is exposed each year? [answer]
11. How many people visit a dentist regularly? [answer]
12. How is human exposure to radiation measured? [answer]
13. Why is radon a health hazard? [answer]
14. What are dust mites? [answer]
15. Do electromagnetic fields produced by power transmission lines present a health hazard? [answer]
16. How does the blood alcohol level affect the body and behavior? [answer]
17. If the sap of the poison ivy plant touches the skin, will a rash develop? [answer]
18. What safety rules should be observed during a thunderstorm? [answer]
19. What name is now used as a synonym foe leprosy? [answer]
20. Which sport has the highest rate of injuries and what kind of injury is most common? [answer]
21. What are the leading causes of stress? [answer]
22. What are the odds against being struck by lightning? [answer]
23. How does jet lag affect one's body? [answer]
24. How many children die from head trauma incurred while riding bicycles? [answer]

Doctors, Medical Treatment, And First Aid

1. Who is generally regarded as the founder of medicine? [answer]
2. What is the difference between homeopathy, chiropractic medicine, osteopathic medicine, and naturopathy? [answer]
3. Who was the first woman physician in the United States? [answer]
4. What is the Hippocratic Oath? [answer]
5. What was the first medical college in the United States? [answer]
6. What is the difference between an ophthalmologist, optometrist, and optician? [answer]
7. Who was the first African American surgeon to perform heart surgery? [answer]
8. Who received the first heart transplant? [answer]
9. When was the first artificial heart used? [answer]
10. Who was the first test-tube baby? [answer]
11. What is the meaning of the numbers in a blood pressure reading? [answer]
12. How is blood pressure measured? [answer]
13. What is the instrument a doctor uses to check reflexes? [answer]
14. What items should be included in a household first aid kit? [answer]
15. Which first aid measures can be used for a bite by a black widow spicier? [answer]
16. How can a tick be removed? [answer]
17. What first aid remedies may be used for bee stings? [answer]
18. What is the Heimlich maneuver? [answer]
19. What is the difference between heatstroke and heat exhaustion? [answer]

Drugs And Medications

1. How many of the medications used today are derived from plants? [answer]
2. Who discovered penicillin? [answer]
3. From what plant is taxol extracted? [answer]
4. Why are anabolic steroids harmful? [answer]
5. What is meant by the term orphan drugs? [answer]
6. What were the birth defects caused by the drug Thalidomide? [answer]
7. What is a controlled substance? [answer]
8. Which tests detect illegal drug use? [answer]
9. How long do chemicals from marijuana stay in the body? [answer]
10. What are designer drugs, such as China White? [answer]