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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.
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.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.