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Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s.
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.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all women age 65 years of age or older should be screened with bone densitometry.