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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
About 80% of major fungal systemic infections are due to Candida albicans. Another form, Candida peritonitis, occurs most often in postoperative patients. A rare disease, Candida meningitis, may follow leukemia, kidney transplant, other immunosuppressed factors, or when suffering from Candida septicemia.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
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.