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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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
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The most common childhood diseases include croup, chickenpox, ear infections, flu, pneumonia, ringworm, respiratory syncytial virus, scabies, head lice, and asthma.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
