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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
The term bacteria was devised in the 19th century by German biologist Ferdinand Cohn. He based it on the Greek word "bakterion" meaning a small rod or staff. Cohn is considered to be the father of modern bacteriology.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
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.