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Vaccines prevent between 2.5 and 4 million deaths every year.
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.
More than 150,000 Americans killed by cardiovascular disease are younger than the age of 65 years.
Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.