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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.
More than 20 million Americans cite use of marijuana within the past 30 days, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). More than 8 million admit to using it almost every day.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.