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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.
The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.