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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.
By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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.
The cure for trichomoniasis is easy as long as the patient does not drink alcoholic beverages for 24 hours. Just a single dose of medication is needed to rid the body of the disease. However, without proper precautions, an individual may contract the disease repeatedly. In fact, most people develop trichomoniasis again within three months of their last treatment.