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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Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.
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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
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