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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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Thyroid conditions may make getting pregnant impossible.
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Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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If all the neurons in the human body were lined up, they would stretch more than 600 miles.