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Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
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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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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.

