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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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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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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
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Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.