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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Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
Wombat burrow and scat, Narawntapu National Park, Tasmania
Medicinal leeches on a patient’s neck. Today leeches are sometimes used in microsurgery to prevent b
