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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.
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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
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Fungal nail infections account for up to 30% of all skin infections. They affect 5% of the general population—mostly people over the age of 70.