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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.
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 first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.