Two studies published recently suggest there could be something wrong with the way ADHD is diagnosed in young children in the US, one found that nearly 1 million kids are potentially misdiagnosed just because they are the youngest in their kindergarten year, with the youngest in class twice as likely to be on stimulant medication, while the other study confirmed that ...
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January 13, 2010
Cardiac Risk of Stimulants for Children With ADHD:
New guidelines to assess cardiac risk before using stimulant medication in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were published concurrently in 3 Canadian medical society journals in November. Publication of these guidelines coincided with an FDA announcement of a delay in a US epidemiological study of the potential cardiovascular risk.
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August 2, 2009
Child Psych: Parents Are Concerned about Psychiatric Medications
Popular press coverage has once again raised concern about the use of psychiatric medications to treat emotional and behavioral problems in children. A recent study has linked the use of stimulant medication (such as Ritalin) with 10 deaths in a sample of 564 children and adolescents who died suddenly for unexplained reasons. It's important to note that the study was unable to demonstrate that s
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