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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.
Eat fiber! A diet high in fiber can help lower cholesterol levels by as much as 10%.
Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.