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Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
The most common treatment options for addiction include psychotherapy, support groups, and individual counseling.
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.
Asthma occurs in one in 11 children and in one in 12 adults. African Americans and Latinos have a higher risk for developing asthma than other groups.