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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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.
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The most common treatment options for addiction include psychotherapy, support groups, and individual counseling.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.
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A baby Sciurus
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Comparing fossil patterns of the Hadar Baby, the Taung Child, and Au. Robustus.
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Baby's eyes are developed in 6th week of pregnancy
