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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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The liver is the only organ that has the ability to regenerate itself after certain types of damage. As much as 25% of the liver can be removed, and it will still regenerate back to its original shape and size. However, the liver cannot regenerate after severe damage caused by alcohol.
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Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
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Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
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Stevens-Johnson syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis syndrome are life-threatening reactions that can result in death. Complications include permanent blindness, dry-eye syndrome, lung damage, photophobia, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, permanent loss of nail beds, scarring of mucous membranes, arthritis, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Many patients' pores scar shut, causing them to retain heat.
Passive and active transport.
Cleavage with trypsin and papain separates the myosin heads
Listening to the fetal heartbeat with a Doppler device.
As with other groups, there is no such thing as the Latino family. Some Latino families speak little ...
Passive touch by holding the feet lightly.
Embryonic development of shepherd’s purse (Capsella), a eudicot