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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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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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Calcitonin is a naturally occurring hormone. In women who are at least 5 years beyond menopause, it slows bone loss and increases spinal bone density.
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According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.