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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.
Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
Between 1999 and 2012, American adults with high total cholesterol decreased from 18.3% to 12.9%
ACTH levels are normally highest in the early morning (between 6 and 8 A.M.) and lowest in the evening (between 6 and 11 P.M.). Therefore, a doctor who suspects abnormal levels looks for low ACTH in the morning and high ACTH in the evening.