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Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion every year.
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
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.
In the United States, there is a birth every 8 seconds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.
It is widely believed that giving a daily oral dose of aspirin to heart attack patients improves their chances of survival because the aspirin blocks the formation of new blood clots.