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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.
There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all women age 65 years of age or older should be screened with bone densitometry.