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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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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Patients who have been on total parenteral nutrition for more than a few days may need to have foods gradually reintroduced to give the digestive tract time to start working again.
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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.