Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in the world. Most children who develop asthma have symptoms before they are 5 years old.
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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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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Fungal nail infections account for up to 30% of all skin infections. They affect 5% of the general population—mostly people over the age of 70.
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The eye muscles are the most active muscles in the whole body. The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be.
The calcaneus spur found on the male's hind limb is used to deliver venom.
Locations of Sunspots Throughout the Sunspot Cycle
Journey to Delivery
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Human mtDNA molecule, showing the locations of HVS I and II regions relative to other mtDNA genes