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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.
Urine turns bright yellow if larger than normal amounts of certain substances are consumed; one of these substances is asparagus.
Recent studies have shown that the number of medication errors increases in relation to the number of orders that are verified per pharmacist, per work shift.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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.