A recently released study from the Food and Drug Administration has found that children who take medication for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) can suffer from hallucinations.
, researchers concluded that drugs for ADHD can cause “psychosis and mania in some patients” even when taken as directed.
In some of the cases, children were reported to have imagined that insects and snakes were crawling on their bodies. In another case, Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget Barack Obama’s staff making contact with a governor charged with corruption. What’s got everyone talking is the president-elect’s fine first form.
“FIT FOR OFFICE: Buff Bam is Hawaii hunk,” the New York Post gushed on its cover Tuesday above a photo of the future president strolling without a shirt in Hawaii. The Drudge Report called him “President Beefcake” while TMZ said the president-elect is “still humble enough Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget Barack Obama’s staff making contact with a governor charged with corruption. What’s got everyone talking is the president-elect’s fine first form.
“FIT FOR OFFICE: Buff Bam is Hawaii hunk,” the New York Post gushed on its cover Tuesday above a photo of the future president strolling without a shirt in Hawaii. The Drudge Report called him “President Beefcake” while TMZ said the president-elect is “still humble enough Read the rest of this entry »
New Jersey’s Public Health Council stopped complaining last year about parents who don’t vaccinate their children and took action. Now, New Jersey is the first state in the nation to require a flu shot for all children before they enroll in preschools and daycare centers.
The compulsory vaccination for preschoolers is intended to promote public health, a move based on a recommendation from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Read the rest of this entry »
Out with the grapevine. In with the shimmy. Step off the step and back away from the stripper pole. Then again, don’t back up too far. Everything old tends to turn new again, and some of the fitness trends that experts say will be popular in 2009 may seem a bit familiar. Chances are those Wii Fits won’t wind up in Goodwill bins anytime soon. And those Billy Blanks Tae Bo DVDs could just be hot sellers at summer garage sales. Giuseppina Bartlett, the Read the rest of this entry »
Scientists puzzled by increasing mortality rates in sea otter populations along California’s central coast say the animals’ food source may be delivering deadly pathogens.
A new study released this week by the U.S. Geological Survey and University of California, Davis suggests that sea otters regularly eating marine snails, clams or fat innkeeper worms have a higher risk of exposure to parasites that cause disease.
By comparison, sea otters that Read the rest of this entry »
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) — Spinal anesthesia won’t cause or worsen restless legs syndrome.
That’s the conclusion of a new study published as a letter to the editor in the Nov. 20 issue of the
. The study compared people undergoing general anesthesia to those undergoing surgery with spinal anesthesia and found no difference in restless legs syndrome symptoms between the groups.
“Our study was designed to test the hypothesis that spinal Read the rest of this entry »
Kids: Don’t play Doctors and Nurses with your iPod. Using earbuds as a play stethoscope could seriously damage your granny’s health.
So say the real doctors at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston, who recently finished up pushing eight different models of magnet-laden earbuds up against the pacemakers and defibrillators embedded in the chests of patients. They found that, if the ‘buds are placed within 1.2 inches of a pacemaker, it will make Read the rest of this entry »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A common stimulant drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can cause brain changes in mice similar to those seen in cocaine addiction, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
They said healthy mice exposed to daily injections of the Novartis drug Ritalin, or methylphenidate, developed changes in the reward centers of their brains, and some of these changes resembled those in mice given cocaine.
“Methylphenidate, Read the rest of this entry »
Azeleah DeLeon’s smile made her the darling of a large and loving family.
The 8-month-old died before her teeth came in.
Sixty-four-year-old Sylvia Hinklin of Cotopaxi was headed home when she was hit head-on by a wrong- way driver on Interstate 25.
The fiery crash killed Hinklin and her dog, Chase, and the other driver, who was drunk.
The three were among 14 people who died from alcohol- or drug-related crashes in Colorado Springs in 2008, Read the rest of this entry »