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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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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in the world. Most children who develop asthma have symptoms before they are 5 years old.
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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.