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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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To combat osteoporosis, changes in lifestyle and diet are recommended. At-risk patients should include 1,200 to 1,500 mg of calcium daily either via dietary means or with supplements.
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There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
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The newest statin drug, rosuvastatin, has been called a superstatin because it appears to reduce LDL cholesterol to a greater degree than the other approved statin drugs.
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Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
Uranus's aurorae against its equatorial rings, imaged by the Hubble telescope. Unlike the auror
Dead Weight Testers Experiment
A mechanical returnless fuel system. The bypass regulator in the fuel tank controls fuel line ...
Monkey Experiment: Sense of Fairness
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - Telephone Line + Lyrics
Summary of the Hershey–Chase experiment demonstrating that DNA, and not protein