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When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
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, congenital cytomegalovirus causes one child to become disabled almost every hour. CMV is the leading preventable viral cause of development disability in newborns. These disabilities include hearing or vision loss, and cerebral palsy.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.