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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.
People with high total cholesterol have about two times the risk for heart disease as people with ideal levels.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.
Since 1988, the CDC has reported a 99% reduction in bacterial meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae, due to the introduction of the vaccine against it.