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Congestive heart failure is a serious disorder that carries a reduced life expectancy. Heart failure is usually a chronic illness, and it may worsen with infection or other physical stressors.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Risperdal, an adult antipsychotic drug, for the symptomatic treatment of irritability in children and adolescents with autism. The approval is the first for the use of a drug to treat behaviors associated with autism in children. These behaviors are included under the general heading of irritability and include aggression, deliberate self-injury, and temper tantrums.