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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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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
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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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Approximately one in three babies in the United States is now delivered by cesarean section. The number of cesarean sections in the United States has risen 46% since 1996.