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Glaxo Pays $40 Million in (Another) Paxil Settlement
In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 5 days ago
GlaxoSmithKline is shelling out another $40 million to deal with the fallout over the use of its antidepressant Paxil in kids. This time, the money is...
Tags: adolescents antidepressant children kids running
Playing the Blame Game: Video Games Pros and Cons
In SharpBrains - Posted 1 week ago
Playing the Blame Game-- Video games stand accused of causing obesity, violence, and lousy grades. But new research paints a surprisingly complicated ...
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Defending The Health Care Rights of Adolescents
In Teen Health 411 - Posted 1 week ago
There is some very dangerous stuff happening at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington D.C. There is a Proposed Rule Ensuring...
Tags: adolescents
Questions on Lemierres
In DB's Medical Rants - Posted 2 weeks ago
Woody writes:1. Do not use macrolides (erythromycin or azithromycin) as empiric therapy for pharyngitis. Stick with penicillin or cephalosporins. Ma...
Tags: adolescents allergy hiv
No NO Gadget For Asthma
In Medgadget - Posted 2 weeks ago
NO (nitric oxide) is a measurable marker of asthma-related inflammation. As well, it has been shown that the higher the level of NO in the breath, the...
Tags: adolescents asthma inhaler lungs
The phantom epidemic of child diabetes
In Junkfood Science - Posted 2 weeks ago
We ve heard it repeated so many times that consumers and healthcare professionals, alike, assume it must be true: that the epidemic of childhood obe...
Tags: adolescents childhood children diabetes obesity overweight type 2 diabetes
Bipolar Overawareness Week: New York Times Magazine Edition
In Clinical Psychology - Posted 3 weeks ago
Jennifer Egan has a roughly 29,000 word piece in the New York Times magazine regarding child bipolar disorder. OK, maybe it just seemed that long. A...
Tags: adhd adolescents antidepressants anxiety autism bipolar bipolar disorder carbohydrates childhood children depression kids mental health teens
Lisa Sanders on Lemierres
In DB's Medical Rants - Posted 3 weeks ago
Tomorrow s NY Times Sunday Magazine features Justin s story - The Strep Throat that wasn tAs readers know, I write frequently about this orpha...
Tags: adolescents strep throat
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Best to Treat Childhood Trauma
In World of Psychology - Posted 3 weeks ago
Kids get exposed to all sorts of traumatic events in their young lives and for most, they can escape from serious emotional harm. One way to do that i...
Tags: adolescents anxiety childhood children depression kids mental health stress
Early misuse of painkillers leads to addiction?
In Addiction and Recovery News - Posted 3 weeks ago
More research suggesting that opiate addiction can be aquired by early exposure:No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. I...
Tags: addiction adolescents
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