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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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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
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As of mid-2016, 18.2 million people were receiving advanced retroviral therapy (ART) worldwide. This represents between 43–50% of the 34–39.8 million people living with HIV.
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Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
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The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").