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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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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.