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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
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.
Bisphosphonates were first developed in the nineteenth century. They were first investigated for use in disorders of bone metabolism in the 1960s. They are now used clinically for the treatment of osteoporosis, Paget's disease, bone metastasis, multiple myeloma, and other conditions that feature bone fragility.
Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.