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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 approximately 3 million unintended pregnancies in the United States each year.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.