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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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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
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The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.