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theatlantic: How Many Children Actually Have ADHD? There’s a fascinating new paper out this week by researchers from the Food and Drug Administration on the kinds of prescription medications given to children between 2002 and 2010. Among the findings: prescriptions for anti-depressants actually declined five percent over the study period. Birth control was up more than 90 percent. And orders for asthma drugs increased 14 percent. But one of the most interesting results is the remarkable rise in medication for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. From 2002 to 2010, prescriptions for the disorder jumped 43 percent. […] Beyond the widening abuse of such drugs, new research also suggests that attention deficit disorder (ADD) may not be as widespread as we generally think it is. For one thing, it’s become one of the world’s most overdiagnosed diseases, increasing by an average 5.5 percent a year in the United States. There’s no comprehensive clinical test for ADD and ADHD — usually, doctors simply assess the disorder by intuition and rules of thumb. Read more. [Image: Quinn Ryan Mattingly/Flickr] I wonder what will these kids grow up to be and what would have they grown up to be had they not been given drugs.. I see a bright future for the GOP :)

theatlantic:

How Many Children Actually Have ADHD?

There’s a fascinating new paper out this week by researchers from the Food and Drug Administration on the kinds of prescription medications given to children between 2002 and 2010. Among the findings: prescriptions for anti-depressants actually declined five percent over the study period. Birth control was up more than 90 percent. And orders for asthma drugs increased 14 percent.

But one of the most interesting results is the remarkable rise in medication for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. From 2002 to 2010, prescriptions for the disorder jumped 43 percent. […]

Beyond the widening abuse of such drugs, new research also suggests that attention deficit disorder (ADD) may not be as widespread as we generally think it is. For one thing, it’s become one of the world’s most overdiagnosed diseases, increasing by an average 5.5 percent a year in the United States. There’s no comprehensive clinical test for ADD and ADHD — usually, doctors simply assess the disorder by intuition and rules of thumb.

Read more. [Image: Quinn Ryan Mattingly/Flickr]

I wonder what will these kids grow up to be and what would have they grown up to be had they not been given drugs..

I see a bright future for the GOP :)

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Michael Wells of Oakville, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000 that had metastasized to his hip bone, saw the drug Zytiga put the cancer in check during the clinical trial. The drug slows the cancer’s progression considerably. “If the FDA looks favorably upon the data … it will really change the standard of care in advanced prostate cancer away from chemotherapy toward a well-tolerated, oral therapy,” Ryan said from Chicago. “It opens up the possibility of this life-prolonging therapy being given to a larger population of patients.” (via Prostate cancer drug so effective trial stopped)

Michael Wells of Oakville, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000 that had metastasized to his hip bone, saw the drug Zytiga put the cancer in check during the clinical trial. The drug slows the cancer’s progression considerably.

“If the FDA looks favorably upon the data … it will really change the standard of care in advanced prostate cancer away from chemotherapy toward a well-tolerated, oral therapy,” Ryan said from Chicago. “It opens up the possibility of this life-prolonging therapy being given to a larger population of patients.” (via Prostate cancer drug so effective trial stopped)

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Lilly shares have fallen 1.3% along with the broader market. Not exactly what you’d expect if the drug, Amyvid (generic name: florbetapir) is going to be widely used to diagnose one of the most dreaded diseases in the world, as you might expect after reading this Wall Street Journal article. The problem, straight from the drug’s label: “A positive Amyvid scan does not establish a diagnosis of AD or other cognitive disorder.
— wsj, Why Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s Imaging Test Is No Breakthrough - Forbes
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