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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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Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.
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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
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In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.