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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
Eat fiber! A diet high in fiber can help lower cholesterol levels by as much as 10%.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
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.
Vaccines cause herd immunity. If the majority of people in a community have been vaccinated against a disease, an unvaccinated person is less likely to get the disease since others are less likely to become sick from it and spread the disease.