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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.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
Most childhood vaccines are 90–99% effective in preventing disease. Side effects are rarely serious.
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.