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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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.
Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
Green tea is able to stop the scent of garlic or onion from causing bad breath.
The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.