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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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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in the world. Most children who develop asthma have symptoms before they are 5 years old.
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Eat fiber! A diet high in fiber can help lower cholesterol levels by as much as 10%.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.