Parents of autistic kids frustrated by lack of residential treatment options

The Steffens can’t go on a family outing to a park. Or stay with out-of-town relatives. Or, if 11-year-old Andrew is along, even stop by the grocery.

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ADHD Drugs:Helpful or Destructive?

There is some confusion as to why stimulant drugs have a calming effect on children. Therefore, it was postulated that children with ADHD have some sort of deficiency that stimulants fill. This is a false notion, as the effects of ADHD drugs are the same in all people, whether they have ADHD or not. When scientists experimented on lab animals, by giving them stimulants, they observed a universal adverse response. This reaction, which we will elaborate on below, occurs in humans to the same degree.

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Keith Conners, Father of ADHD, Regrets Its Current Misuse

Keith Conners can rightly be called the “Father of ADHD”. He was there at the birth of the disorder and probably knows more about it than anyone else on the planet.

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Families with children suffering from mental illness should not fight alone

In February, the Duchess of Cambridge made news headlines around the globe when she publicly announced support for an initiative to reduce the stigma around children suffering from mental illness. I’d like to thank her for bringing heightened awareness to this critical issue.

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Troubled Kids' Psychiatric Care Often Delayed by Insurance Rules

Children with severe psychiatric problems often have lengthy waits before they're transferred from a hospital emergency department to a psychiatric hospital due to insurance companies' "prior authorization" requirements, a small study suggests.

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'Unfit' mother's religious objections can't keep children from being vaccinated, court rules

Despite a mother's religious objections, a Kent County judge acted properly in ordering her children to undergo vaccinations after finding her an "unfit" mother, a state court of appeals panel said.

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• Parents, deemed unfit, lose bid to keep kids from being vaccinated

Maine Voices: Bill to treat ‘drug-addicted babies’ based on harmful misconceptions

Maine Sen. Angus King’s “Cradle Act” is an example of the many harmful misconceptions about maternal opiate addiction.

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Court rules four children must have vaccines after mother objects

A family court judge has ruled that four children must be immunised after their Muslim mother refused consent because she said vaccines contained pork gelatine.


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Young girl at the center of hospital pot use battle dies Loading

A young girl at the center of a battle to allow hospital patients the right to use smokeless forms of medical marijuana, has died.

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• Why kids with August birthdays are more likely to get an ADHD diagnosis

Kids with August birthdays are more likely to get an ADHD diagnosis. Here’s why.

One of the most contentious debates in child development in the United States is what's leading to the sharp rise in cases of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). More than one in 10 children ages 4 to 17 are estimated to have the diagnosis, and scientists are looking at the role things such as genetics, environmental exposures and low birth weight might play.


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• ADHD Might Be A Misdiagnosis For Child's Maturity, Study Finds

Thousands at risk of unfairly losing welfare benefits because of "no jab no pay"

Thousands of Australians are at risk of having their welfare payments unfairly slashed because of inaccuracies in Australia's immunisation register, which is being used to process the Turnbull government's new "no jab, no pay" rules, health care workers say.

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Youngest Kids In Class At Higher Risk Of ADHD Diagnosis

By the time they're in elementary school, some kids prove to be more troublesome than others. They can't sit still or they're not socializing or they can't focus enough to complete tasks that the other kids are handling well. Sounds like ADHD. But it might be that they're just a little young for their grade.

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• Active Children Are Being Overdiagnosed With ADHD a New Study Finds
• Children born in August at increased risk of being diagnosed with ADHD than those born in September: Study

ADHD is vastly overdiagnosed and many children are just immature, say scientists

Many children are needlessly prescribed drugs to combat ADHD when they are just immature, a study suggests

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• ADHD children may just be immature, research suggests

What’s causing ADHD to skyrocket in kids?

In 2003, 7.8% of 4- to 17-year-olds in the US were were diagnosed with ADHD, according to the National Survey of Children’s Health. By 2011, that figure had reached 11% of students, with 20% of high-school boys diagnosed with the condition.

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“New Mexico Law Prohibits Forced Psychiatric Drugging of Children”

Bill 53 has officially become law in New Mexico House Bill, ensuring that a parent’s decision not to administer psychiatric drugs to a child is not grounds for a child being removed from parental custody.

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Drugging Children to Keep Them Quiet

Two mothers mentioned getting perscriptions from doctors to medicate children during a plane trip. Presumably to keep them calm and sedated. This honestly bothers me profoundly! I try not to give my child chemical medications at all, just as I try to avoid taking them myself.

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ADHD Meds Tied to Lower Bone Density in Kids

Children on medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have lower bone density than their peers, a new U.S. study suggests.

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Parents ask lawmakers for pediatric medical marijuana

Joy O’Meara, of Trumbull, can’t keep track of the times she’s made emergency calls for her 7-year-old son, Jamison, but she won’t forget the moments when she held his seemingly lifeless body and began CPR.

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Pills for your kid's ADHD? Try this instead

You likely first heard about attention-deficit disorder, or ADD, in the early 1980s when the condition came onto the popular radar under that label, and parents and teachers scrambled to learn about treatment.

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