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In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
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As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
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More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
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Dogs have been used in studies to detect various cancers in human subjects. They have been trained to sniff breath samples from humans that were collected by having them breathe into special tubes. These people included 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients, and 83 cancer-free patients. The dogs detected 54 of the 55 lung cancer patients as having cancer, detected 28 of the 31 breast cancer patients, and gave only three false-positive results (detecting cancer in people who didn't have it).
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Persons who overdose with cardiac glycosides have a better chance of overall survival if they can survive the first 24 hours after the overdose.
The bobcat population has seen declines in the American Midwest, but is generally stable and healthy
From 1965 to 1968, American troops in Vietnam conducted “search and destroy” missions to shatter ...
Mazie Hirono, the first Japanese American woman to be elected a U.S. senator.
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Sign and symptoms of a patient with heart failure
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