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The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).
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.
A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.