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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.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
The term pharmacology is derived from the Greek words pharmakon("claim, medicine, poison, or remedy") and logos ("study").





