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Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.
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.
More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.