Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
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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.
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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.
