An October 19, 2006 Associated Press (AP) story reporting on a new long term government study showed 30% of preschool children suffered severe adverse reactions after taking Ritalin. The study, published in the November 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, calls into question the efficacy and usage
read moreFrom a May 15, 2002 Associated Press story reported on the MSNBC website comes the above headline with a story that starts, “Specialty has mushroomed into too much of a good thing.” A study of newborn death rates at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H, found that there were few differences across the country of
read moreIn two separate studies steroids were shown to be harmful for each of two separate age groups even though these drugs are common treatments. From the October 23rd issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine comes the first report that states, “that men and women older than 60 who take corticosteroids for longer than 6
read moreThe head of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Asa Hutchinson, is calling for all 50 states to establish programs to track prescriptions of schedule II drugs. This story appears in the April 22 – 29, 2002 issue of the American Medical News, reporting on the National Association of Attorneys General meeting. On March 22,
read morePRNewswire, December 16, 2000 published an interesting article concerning the movement of the medical profession toward spirituality. According to Herbert Benson, M.D., president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical centre, “Spirituality and healing are rapidly becoming integrated into mainstream American medicine.” “Over the last ten years, we have witnessed a substantial
read moreThe above headline is from the September 12, 2001 issue of Intelihealth. The first sentence of the report then goes on to say, “Primary-care doctors are still unnecessarily prescribing antibiotics to adults who come to their office complaining of a sore throat.” This report was based on a study from a retrospective study carried out
read moreThe March 5, 2005 issue of the British Medical Journal reports on a study that shows that mothers who smoke in late pregnancy risk having children with lower intelligence. The research found that young men whose mothers smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day had IQs that were on average 6.2 points below those of
read moreIn the Medical Tribune June 24, 1999 is an article reporting that New York Researchers have found that women who smoke during pregnancy may increase the chance of their children having certain behavioral disorders. For years there has been a well-established connection between low birth-weight and mothers who smoke. But this new evidence shows the
read moreAre antibiotics really needed for ear infections? An article from the October 2001 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests otherwise. According to the article the medical profession is facing a situation where the antibiotics they have relied on in the past are becoming less effective, prompting physicians around the world to consider alternatives.
read moreIn an interesting research project published in the July 11, 2002 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)comes a study of the effectiveness of knee surgery on the elderly. What may be most interesting about this study is that some patients in the study got “sham surgery” instead of the real thing. Presently,
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