|
Author Question: A steer must eat at least 100 pounds of grain to gain less than 10 pounds of muscle tissue. This illustrates (Read 3794 times) |
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
No drugs are available to relieve parathyroid disease. Parathyroid disease is caused by a parathyroid tumor, and it needs to be removed by surgery.
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 top five reasons that children stay home from school are as follows: colds, stomach flu (gastroenteritis), ear infection (otitis media), pink eye (conjunctivitis), and sore throat.
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.