One in four kids on ADHD meds gets therapy too

Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014


One in four kids on ADHD meds gets therapy too

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most kids in the U.S. who take medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are not getting behavioral counseling therapy as well, according to a new study. The analysis, based on a commercial insurance database, also found the proportion of kids with ADHD who do get therapy varies widely from region to region. “Although I expected rates of psychotherapy to differ across counties, I was surprised by the amount by which they differed,” said Dr. Walid F. Gellad, lead author of the new research letter. ...

Cops Take On Mission to Place Homeless Mentally-Disabled Teen

They found Jake stumbling along a busy highway in Washington state.

Wall St. ends sharply lower, S&P below key support level

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock ExchangeBy Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended with sharp losses on Thursday, with the S&P 500 suffering its biggest one-day decline since July, as Apple tumbled and the dollar rose to a four-year high. The day's decline was broad, with all ten primary S&P 500 sectors lower on the day and most down more than 1 percent. About 80 percent of stocks traded on both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq ended lower. The S&P has dropped for four of the past five sessions and it closed below its 50-day moving average for the first time since Aug 15. ...



Eighth death from Legionnaire's disease in Spain

A petri dish and test tubes with colonies of legionella bacteria, which can cause the lung infection Legionnaire's diseaseBarcelona (Spain) (AFP) - An eighth person has died from the lung infection Legionnaire's disease in northeastern Spain, where two separate outbreaks have struck this month, officials said Thursday.



Canada says poor coordination bogging down Ebola vaccine shipment

By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG Manitoba (Reuters) - Poor global coordination has bogged down Canada's efforts to deliver its Ebola vaccine to Africa, a Canadian minister said on Thursday, six weeks after Ottawa offered to make a donation to help fight the deadly outbreak. The Canadian government said it would donate between 800 and 1,000 doses of its VSV-EBOV vaccine to the World Health Organization for use in Africa. The vaccine remains in a government lab as Canadian and WHO officials grapple with logistical and ethical issues. ...

The Diary of a Sugar Addict in Detox

The Diary of a Sugar Addict in Detoxby Laura BarcellaIs refined sugar addictive? Researchers have debated the issue for years, with the ayes increasingly drowning out the nays, although last month a big study suggested the addiction isn't to sugar but to eating itself. But ask me that loaded question and you'll get a sheepish nod in between teeming mouthfuls of sour gummies and...



Morey Lipton, M.D. -- Four Lessons He Taught Me About Medicine (and Life)

On Sept. 22, one of the most caring, boundless, and accomplished human beings I have ever met passed away in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Morey Lipton was a brilliant physician, who, despite his specialty as a skilled surgeon, insisted that health was a whole patient, whole family, and whole of society affair. Officially, I was never one of...





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