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After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.
Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
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 human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.