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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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It is widely believed that giving a daily oral dose of aspirin to heart attack patients improves their chances of survival because the aspirin blocks the formation of new blood clots.
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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
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Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").