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The horizontal fraction bar was introduced by the Arabs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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.
Thyroid conditions cause a higher risk of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.