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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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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
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The oldest recorded age was 122. Madame Jeanne Calment was born in France in 1875 and died in 1997. She was a vegetarian and loved olive oil, port wine, and chocolate.