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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.
There are actually 60 minerals, 16 vitamins, 12 essential amino acids, and three essential fatty acids that your body needs every day.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.