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In inpatient settings, adverse drug events account for an estimated one in three of all hospital adverse events. They affect approximately 2 million hospital stays every year, and prolong hospital stays by between one and five days.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
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.