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This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will have a new or recurrent heart attack.
The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
Certain topical medications such as clotrimazole and betamethasone are not approved for use in children younger than 12 years of age. They must be used very cautiously, as directed by a doctor, to treat any child. Children have a much greater response to topical steroid medications.
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.