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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
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.
Parkinson's disease is both chronic and progressive. This means that it persists over a long period of time and that its symptoms grow worse over time.