The Food and Drug Administration on Monday said children shouldn’t stop taking drugs that treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, despite a study showing the stimulants may be associated with sudden death. A study released in the American Journal of Psychiatry found an association between the stimulants, which include drugs such as Ritalin, and

Patients ages 30 to 74 who took atypical antipsychotics such as risperidone (sold as Risperdal), quetiapine (Seroquel), olanzapine (Zyprexa) and clozapine (Clozaril) had a significantly higher risk of sudden death from cardiac arrhythmias and other cardiac causes than patients who did not take these medications, according to a new study funded by the Department of

Go to Psychiatry & Mental Health section at www.medscape.com for a video on the efficacy of citalopram to control repetitive behaviors in children with autism. Citation: King BH, Hollander E, Sikich L, et al. Lack of efficacy of citalopram in children with autism spectrum disorders and high levels of repetitive behavior: citalopram ineffective in children

Journal Retracts 1998 Paper Linking Autism to Vaccines By GARDINER HARRIS A prominent British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a 1998 research paper that set off a sharp decline in vaccinations in Britain after the paper’s lead author suggested that vaccines could cause autism. The retraction by The Lancet is part of a reassessment that

Behavioral Therapy Improves Sleep and Lives of Patients With Pain Science Daily (Feb. 16, 2010) Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia significantly improved sleep for patients with chronic neck or back pain and also reduced the extent to which pain interfered with their daily functioning, according to a study by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers.

More than any other research, it was a study published in British medical journal the Lancet in 1998 that helped foster the persisting notion that childhood vaccines can cause autism. On Tuesday, that flawed study, led by gastroenterologist Dr. Andrew Wakefield, was officially retracted by the journal’s editors a serious slap and rare move in

Hits to the head focus of Berkeley Prep football study By MARY SHEDDEN | The Tampa Tribune and KATHERINE SMITH | The Tampa Tribune After every football game and practice, as Vic Pellegrino’s Berkeley Prep teammates head for the locker room, he goes straight to the trainer’s room. The junior wide receiver and defensive back

Limits to Law and Information Sharing, Despite Gunman’s Danger Signs By ADAM NAGOURNEY and ERICA GOODE MAY 26, 2014 LOS ANGELES — Elliot O. Rodger was a young college student who had few friends, detested his roommates and spent much of his time alone, reveling in the isolation of a local golf course or the

Duchenne drug ‘nears approval’ in EU May 23, 2014 19:55 Pills A new drug could be used to treat children in the UK with Duchenne in 2015 A drug to treat a particular form of Duchenne muscular dystrophy has been given the green light by the European Medicines Agency and could be available in the

Law School Admission Council Settles Disability Lawsuit ByJennifer Smith The organization that administers the law school admission test will pay $7.73 million to settle claims that it failed to accommodate exam takers with disabilities. The settlement was announced on Tuesday by the Justice Department, which in 2012 intervened in a class action brought on behalf

Do we yawn to cool the brain? Yawning frequencies of people vary with temperature of the season Date: May 6, 2014 Source: University of Vienna New research suggests that yawning is linked with thermoregulation, and in particular, brain cooling. Credit: © pressmaster / Fotolia Common belief is that yawning helps to increase the oxygen supply.

Epilepsy drug target implications for sleep disruption in brain disorders April 1, 2014 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania A new study in a mutant fruitfly called sleepless (sss) confirmed that the enzyme GABA transaminase, which is the target of some epilepsy drugs, contributes to sleep loss. The findings, published online in