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.
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Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
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The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
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The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
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Most fungi that pathogenically affect humans live in soil. If a person is not healthy, has an open wound, or is immunocompromised, a fungal infection can be very aggressive.
