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Stroke kills people from all ethnic backgrounds, but the people at highest risk for fatal strokes are: black men, black women, Asian men, white men, and white women.
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.
People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
Pubic lice (crabs) are usually spread through sexual contact. You cannot catch them by using a public toilet.