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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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Fewer than 10% of babies are born on their exact due dates, 50% are born within 1 week of the due date, and 90% are born within 2 weeks of the date.
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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
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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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Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.