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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
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.
After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
No drugs are available to relieve parathyroid disease. Parathyroid disease is caused by a parathyroid tumor, and it needs to be removed by surgery.