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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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Elderly adults are at greatest risk of stroke and myocardial infarction and have the most to gain from prophylaxis. Patients ages 60 to 80 years with blood pressures above 160/90 mm Hg should benefit from antihypertensive treatment.
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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
Levallois points and flakes from Kapthurin, Kenya date to between 200,000 and 280,000 years ago.
Adults in the middle-aged group (37–42 years) score higher on measures of generativity than either ...
Average Years of Schooling versus GDP per Capita
Pangaea 200 Million Years Ago
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Earth 600 Million Years Ago