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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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There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
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About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.