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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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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.
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The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.