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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.
Pregnant women usually experience a heightened sense of smell beginning late in the first trimester. Some experts call this the body's way of protecting a pregnant woman from foods that are unsafe for the fetus.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.