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About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
Blood in the urine can be a sign of a kidney stone, glomerulonephritis, or other kidney problems.
Hyperthyroidism leads to an increased rate of metabolism and affects about 1% of women but only 0.1% of men. For most people, this increased metabolic rate causes the thyroid gland to become enlarged (known as a goiter).
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.