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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
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.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.