Elderly adults are living longer, and causes of death are shifting. At the same time, autopsy rates are at or near their lowest in history.
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
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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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There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
Uticaria, a skin rash caused by type I hypersensitivity.
Proposed structure for keratin-type intermediate filaments
Sleep disorder causes
People with binge eating disorder often eat in secret