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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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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Asthma occurs in one in 11 children and in one in 12 adults. African Americans and Latinos have a higher risk for developing asthma than other groups.
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Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.