THURSDAY, Jan. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A spike in the use of ADHD medications during the pandemic likely prompted drug shortages that continue to frustrate patients and doctors today, a new study shows. New prescriptions for stimulants that treat the condition jumped for young adults and women in particularContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A ‘secret shopper’ study finds that for many American families, accessing inpatient treatment for a teen battling addiction can be next to impossible. “If you are a family in crisis and you have a kid for whom outpatient treatment is not an option,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Teens who are active are doing their bones a lasting favor, Japanese researchers report. “Physical exercise in adolescence affects BMD [bone mineral density] more than 50 years later in older adults,” said lead researcher Dr. Yoshifumi Tamura, a faculty member at Juntendo UniversityContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An average of 22 U.S. teens die each week from drug overdoses, a death toll driven by the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, a new study reports. Researchers also have identified 19 “hotspot” counties where fatal ODs are occurring as much as double theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — “School spirit” appears to provide long-lasting mental health benefits for Black teens, new research finds. School connectedness – the degree to which students feel like part of to their school community – is a protective factor against depression and aggressive behavior later inContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Exposing babies and toddlers to TV and other digital media could be linked to a heightened risk for dysfunction in what’s known as “sensory processing,” a new study warns. Kids with “atypical sensory processing” are often hypersensitive to the touch, sound, taste orContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Ear infections are common for kids, but they can lead to long-term developmental problems, a new study finds. Temporary hearing loss caused by recurring ear infections can lead to delays in language development and sound processing years later, researchers reported recently in theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The fluid-filled spaces around the brain’s blood vessels need proper waste “clearance” every few hours. When that fails to happen, a baby’s risk for autism appears to rise, new research shows. It’s too early to say that trouble within these “perivascular” spaces causesContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A popular infant lounger violates U.S. safety standards because it poses a fall hazard and suffocation risk to babies, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warns. Though a notice of violation has been issued to the seller, Poetint002 of China, the companyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — At least 251 cases of lead poisoning linked to tainted fruit puree pouches have now been reported in 34 states, U.S. health officials said. That’s up from 205 cases reported in the last weekly tally, the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and PreventionContinue Reading