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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
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.
More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.
All adults should have their cholesterol levels checked once every 5 years. During 2009–2010, 69.4% of Americans age 20 and older reported having their cholesterol checked within the last five years.