Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.
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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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Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
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After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.
