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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Elderly adults are living longer, and causes of death are shifting. At the same time, autopsy rates are at or near their lowest in history.
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The most destructive flu epidemic of all times in recorded history occurred in 1918, with approximately 20 million deaths worldwide.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
Plants
Plants
Plants
Bees and Plants
Rapid, long-distance signaling in plants
Selected Narrow Sense Heritability (h2) Values for Animals and Plants
