Portal:Medicine/Did you know/1 ... that Fanconi Syndrome is a disorder in which the proximal tubular function of the kidney is impaired, resulting in decreased reabsorption of electrolytes and nutrients back into the bloodstream? ... that the first vaccine for typhus was developed in 1937? ... that Cretinism is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones? Did you know archive