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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
More than nineteen million Americans carry the factor V gene that causes blood clots, pulmonary embolism, and heart disease.