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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.
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.
The horizontal fraction bar was introduced by the Arabs.
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."
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all women age 65 years of age or older should be screened with bone densitometry.