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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.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.