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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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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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The most dangerous mercury compound, dimethyl mercury, is so toxic that even a few microliters spilled on the skin can cause death. Mercury has been shown to accumulate in higher amounts in the following types of fish than other types: swordfish, shark, mackerel, tilefish, crab, and tuna.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.
Changes in the abundance and egg-hatching success rate of prairie chickens.
A typical oil pan with a built-in windage tray used to keep oil from being churned up by the ...
Flowchart of typical compatibility testing for donors and recipients. Both donor and recipient are ...
A typical hydrogen fuel cell
Typical Night’s Sleep for a Young Adult
Carnivorous plants of the genus Nepenthes grow in nitrogen-poor soil