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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
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It is widely believed that giving a daily oral dose of aspirin to heart attack patients improves their chances of survival because the aspirin blocks the formation of new blood clots.
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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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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.