Medical reports awaited on three drug mistakes at children's hospital

Medical reports awaited on three drug mistakes at children's hospital

One year after several medication errors at Alberta Children's Hospital, there are still lingering questions about what went wrong in the three cases — including two non-fatal drug overdoses in young patients.

Psychiatric Drug Facts with Dr. Peter Breggin

Psychiatric Drug Facts with Dr. Peter Breggin

New psychiatric disorders flag normal human behaviors as "diseases"

The Disease Mongering Engine, which I invented a couple of years ago and posted on NaturalNews, was initially created as a joke to demonstrate the ridiculousness of the fictitious diseases that are constantly created by the psychiatric industry. This hilarious online disease generator (http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-...) allows you to instantly create your own fictitious diseases and disorders such as:

New psychiatric disorders flag normal human behaviors as "diseases"

AstraZeneca to drop psychiatric research

AstraZeneca to drop psychiatric research

AstraZeneca is to cease researching drugs for illnesses including schizophrenia and ovarian cancer in a shake-up of its research and development activities.

Are Parents Overmedicating ADHD Children?

Why the media -- and society -- perpetuate the myth that mental health conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) aren't real and that overly competitive, or "bad" parents are to blame for the rise in diagnosing and medicating children.

Are Parents Overmedicating ADHD Children?

South Carolina to axe all services for autistic children?

South Carolina to axe all services for autistic children?

The state of South Carolina has proposed eliminating all services for with autism and other disorders. Most services to autistic adults will be eliminated as well. This will be devastating to families. These families need your help.

Vaccine Safety Concerns Parents

Many parents are concerned about the safety of vaccines and elect not to vaccinate their children from potentially fatal diseases, according to a new study completed by researchers at the University of Michigan and published online by Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, on March 1, 2010.

Vaccine Safety Concerns Parents

Who is Doping School kids?

It is increasingly—and horrifyingly—commonplace in California to treat children diagnosed with deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, with marijuana. California voters passed a law allowing doctors to recommend medical marijuana to their patients, including those under the age of 18. The law allows doctors to recommend marijuana “for any... illness for which marijuana provides relief.” Under that broad umbrella, doctors are pushing pot to treat all kinds of maladies, including ADHD. Truly, this is horrifying.

Who is Doping School kids?

Handbook suggests that deviations from 'normality' are disorders

Peter De Vries, America's wittiest novelist, died 17 years ago, but his discernment of this country's cultural foibles still amazes. In a 1983 novel, he spotted the tendency of America's therapeutic culture to medicalize character flaws:

Handbook suggests that deviations from 'normality' are disorders

"We've Got Issues": Big Pharma might not be lying

A hundred years ago it was rarely diagnosed in children. In the intervening timespan the number and type of diagnoses have exploded. Moreover, the number and type of treatments have also exploded. The favored treatment usually involves powerful medications with serious side effects. Big Pharma has made a fortune from these medications and is constantly searching for new variations to patent and sell.

"We've Got Issues": Big Pharma might not be lying

Expect a new Prevnar vaccine at your child's next visit

Expect a new Prevnar vaccine at your child's next visit

Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Prevnar 13, an expanded version of the current Prevnar vaccine that protects against bacterial infections that can lead to pneumonia and meninigitis.

Psych meds and children—what parents need to know

Psych meds and children—what parents need to know

We’ve all heard the stories in the news about Rebecca Riley, the 4-year-old who died in 2006 of an overdose of psychiatric medication. She made her first trip to a psychiatrist when she was two, because she was active and had trouble sleeping. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was only three–her ten-year-old brother and four-year-old sister had already been diagnosed with the same—and put on three different medications. By the time she died, she was taking more than ten pills a day. She got sick, and her mother, who was recently convicted in her death, gave her extra pills to make her sleep. Rebecca never woke up.

Doing an About-Face on ‘Overmedicated’ Children

Doing an About-Face on ‘Overmedicated’ Children

Picture a cupped hand. A capsule and a pill lie in the palm. The hand is extended toward a small child. The caption reads, “Take your vitamins.”

Mom's antidepressants may delay baby's first steps

When pregnant women take antidepressants, it sometimes causes their babies to hit developmental milestones late, Danish researchers reported on Monday.

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Are mandatory vaccinations acts of violence against children?

This article refers to the parody cartoon found at (http://www.naturalnews.com/028211_v…). This parody cartoon grew out of the idea that vaccines are “shots” that are being increasingly forced upon children and teens. At times, these vaccines are enforced at gunpoint or with the presence of vicious guard dogs — as happened in Maryland two years ago when a court judge ordered thousands of parents to bring their children to court for vaccination or face gunpoint arrest and possible jail time. (http://www.naturalnews.com/022267.html)

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Questions posed over ADHD drugs

Long-term use of drugs such as Ritalin and dexamphetamine may not improve the social and emotional well-being or academic performance of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a study funded by the Western Australian government has concluded.

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PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth.

The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, Inc. is a nonprofit organization concerned with the increasing use of psychiatric drugs on children. The 2010 ICSPP Distinguished Lecture Series will begin Feb. 24 with a legal webinar presented by Attorney James Gottstein on PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth.

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Big Pharma researcher admits to faking dozens of research studies for Pfizer, Merck

Big Pharma researcher admits to faking dozens of research studies for Pfizer, Merck

It's being called the largest research fraud in medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer's speakers' bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published in medical journals.

Questions posed over ADHD drugs

Questions posed over ADHD drugs

Long-term use of drugs such as Ritalin and dexamphetamine may not improve the social and emotional well-being or academic performance of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a study funded by the Western Australian government has concluded.

Prescription medication addiction affects mainly ages 12-17 in Arkansas

Pain can be a serious health problem. Many patients live with chronic pain and rely on medication to help them deal with it. In Today's Health, Dr. T. Glenn Pait talks about how meds used to treat those symptoms, cause problems of their own.

More >> Prescription medication addiction affects mainly ages 12-17 in Arkansas

Study questions widely-used ADHD drugs

Study questions widely-used ADHD drugs

An Australian study has revealed a "significant lack of effect" of conventional drugs used to treat ADHD, a finding that surprised at least one of its researchers.

FDA clears hypertension drug for children, teens

FDA clears hypertension drug for children, teens7

Daiichi Sankyo Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the hypertension treatment Benicar (olmesartan medoxomil) for children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 years. Benicar was originally approved in 2002 to treat hypertension in adults.

How can we save our country from Ritalin generation (adhd drug)?

More >> How can we save our country from Ritalin generation (adhd drug)?

Oxytocin-Autism Study: the Kind of Evidence-Based Research Parents Need

Oxytocin may help improve social behavior in people with autism, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. There's a lot this study can't tell us; researchers studied just 13 young adults with high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome, and it tested their social responses only in the laboratory, with a ball-tossing game and a measurement of how responsive they were to social cues in pictures of human faces.

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Kids on ADHD drugs `poor at school'

CHILDREN with ADHD who use prescription drugs to manage their condition are 10 times more likely to perform poorly at school than ADHD kids who avoid medication, a new report reveals.

The report also finds stimulant drugs such as Ritalin and dexamphetamine make no significant difference to the level of depression, self-perception and social functioning of a 14-year-old with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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ADHD symptoms caused by lead exposure, new study claims

What causes the frequently diagnosed behavioral problem in children known as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that leads to countless youngsters being given side-effect laden stimulant drugs? Research has focused on genes and, more recently, on the idea that multiple environmental triggers could be the cause. For example, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a recent British study indicates that certain food additives like artificial colors or preservatives could cause ADHD symptoms in some children.

ADHD symptoms caused by lead exposure, new study claims

When the Best Rx Is No Rx

When Latonia Best's teenaged kids were little, doctors always prescribed antibiotics for their ear infections. But when her youngest son, 5-year-old Justin, was diagnosed with one recently, she heard something new: The pediatrician asked if she wanted to try waiting a few days to see if he would get better on his own.

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Generation X or Generation Rx

Generation X or Generation Rx

Alaska psychiatrists accused of wrongly medicating children

Alaska psychiatrists accused of wrongly medicating children

An Alaska mental health advocacy group that has spent years battling the pharmaceutical industry over medication is suing more than a dozen Alaska child psychiatrists, saying the doctors unnecessarily drugged children and committed Medicaid fraud.

The dangers of false certainty

The dangers of false certainty

We all -- physicians and patients -- must face up to our unavoidable ignorance on medical issues, and still try to make wise decisions

Can a pill cure intellectual disabilities?

The ability to improve an intellectually disabled person’s IQ sounds like science fiction, and not so long ago it was – but that is changing.

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This Might Hurt

Anna Dragsbaeck has worked quietly for years to build support for expanding the state’s immunization registry, a database of vaccines given to Texans. Now the executive director of the Texas-based Immunization Partnership is ready for the spotlight: She and her allies are asking lawmakers to include all Texans in the registry. They’ll make their case before an influential Senate committee this month — and face an impassioned and formidable group of privacy proponents and anti-immunization parents.

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Massachusetts Mom Found Guilty of Daughter's Fatal Overdose

Massachusetts Mom Found Guilty of Daughter's Fatal Overdose

A Massachusetts woman was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal prescription drug overdose of her 4-year-old daughter.

Attorney to Sue Doctors Who Misuse Drugs on Children

It’s true that the drug industry was hard hit last year with some pretty hefty fines for the illegal off-label promotion of drugs — $1.4 billion against Eli Lilly for its off-label promotion of Zyprexa and $2.3 billion against Pfizer for doing the same with several drugs. But such fines, many say, are still considered the cost of doing business in an industry that raked in close to $300 billion in U.S. drug sales in 2008 (and more in 2009), according to IMS Health Reports.

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Considering the Dangers of Not Medicating Children Who Really Need It

People are pretty vocal about what they perceive to be the dangers of diagnosing and medicating children who have psychiatric disorders, and you can find plenty of horror stories, including the case of Rebecca Riley, but what about the dangers of not medicating children who fail to respond to non-medication interventions and could really benefit with the right diagnosis and medications?

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Fatal Misunderstandings About Reactive Attachment Disorder

When I began this blog, I chose the name "child myths" because of my concern about misunderstandings that are potentially harmful to children. As some readers know, my interest in this issue began some years ago with a study of so-called Attachment Therapy and its role in the death of Candace Newmaker in 2000 (described in Mercer, J., Sarner,L., & Rosa, L. [2003], "Attachment Therapy On Trial". Westport, CT: Praeger). The fact that other children have also died at the hands of parents acting on the instructions of unconventional therapists has also motivated me to pursue the correction of "child myths".

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Oregon shouldn't permit psychologists to prescribe medication

Under pressure from out-of-state interests, our Legislature is about to consider passage of Senate Bill 1046, enabling psychologists to prescribe medication. This bill would jeopardize the safety of our citizens while creating unnecessary costs. The work group proposing the bill held only five sessions, without public testimony. Remarkably, one member of the work group was from California (and required a temporary Oregon license to participate) and heads a distance-learning post-doctoral psychology training program in clinical psychopharmacology that stands to benefit from the bill's passage. I hope that the Legislature will defer judgment on such an important issue to a regular session during which full and open testimony can be offered.

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Denver boy, 9, died after state-benefits error denied him meds

A Montbello mother says her 9-year-old son's death from severe asthma could have been prevented had Denver Human Services resolved problems with his Medicaid pharmacy benefits.

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Girls with ADHD show other mental health risks

Girls with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are more likely than their peers to develop depression, anxiety, eating disorders or other psychiatric problems by the time they reach adulthood, a new study suggests.

More >> Girls with ADHD show other mental health risks

Vaccine Study Retracted, and Causes of Autism Remain Elusive

In 1998, the medical journal The Lancet published a study suggesting that the childhood MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine was tied to autism. On Tuesday, the journal retracted the study, saying in an editorial that key aspects of the paper—in which Andrew Wakefield reported that 12 children he studied had experienced a sudden onset of autism symptoms after getting MMR shots—were false.

More >> Vaccine Study Retracted, and Causes of Autism Remain Elusive

Parents React to Autism Study Retraction

A prestigious medical journal says a controversial study linking autism to a vaccine is flawed. The retraction by The Lancet is a big blow to many parents who believe the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is indirectly to blame for their child's condition.

Problems Faced By Children With Prescription Drugs

Sometimes physicians prescribe drugs which are not required and which are not permitted for children. Drugs, which have dangerous side effects and are toxic in nature, can lead to death. The prescription of psychotropic drugs to children is considered as one the most faulty features of medical practice.

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Sports coach spiked children's food and drink with drugs so he could molest them, court told

A SPORTS coach plied children with spiked milkshakes and drug-laced macaroni so he could molest and film them, a court has heard.

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Zyprexa Side Effects for Children Lead to Revised FDA Warnings

The FDA has required the drug maker Eli Lilly to update the warning label for their popular antipsychotic Zyprexa about potential weight-gain side effects among children.

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Children and Prescription Drugs

Prescription medication can manage many serious medical and mental illnesses. But if not handled properly, it can also be the cause of just as many and more problems because of side effects, misuse and abuse, and addiction. Unfortunately, children are often the ones who suffer the long-term consequences from prescription drugs.

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Fewer children drug poisoned

The number of children admitted to hospital with drug poisoning has fallen to its lowest level in four years, new figures show.

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Diabetes Drug Helps Dieting Teens Lose Weight

A medication used to treat type 2 diabetes appears to help overweight teenagers lose weight when combined with a program designed to help them change their lifestyle habits, researchers report.

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ER physician says overdose killed Rebecca Riley

On Thursday, a Children’s Hospital pathologist said Rebecca Riley could have died from a combination of pneumonia and toxic amounts of a prescription drug. But an emergency room doctor from the same hospital was not hesitant on Friday.

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Mental health court keeps children out of jail

Mental health court keeps children out of jail

Wearing shorts and a T-shirt, the teenager sat on the sofa in his home in Shreveport's Caddo Heights neighborhood and mumbled under his breath out of anger at his mother. A moment later he yelled at her.

Mental health and markets: two kinds of failure

It’s nice that the Federal Government has given a gong to Pat McGorry, but our country’s commitment to psychiatric treatment remains at the level of mere lip service. I read with interest a recent newspaper article reporting on the Federal Government’s scheme for giving subsidies to private psychologists. This program began in 2006, in response to widespread evidence of a ‘crisis’ in mental health. Psychiatric problems constituted a vast percentage of overall health burden in Australia, yet were systematically under-funded (in proportional terms). The then-Howard Government arranged for psychologists operating in private practice to be subject to Medicare rebates for the first time. The aim here was to allow the private system to pick up the slack for an over-burdened public system. These are the results:

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Doctors cautioned on Zyprexa for adolescents

The Federal Drug Administration on Friday issued a warning to doctors that adolescents taking the drug olanzapine have an "increased potential" -- in comparison with adults taking the new-generation antipsychotic drug -- for weight gain and metabolic disturbances that could result in diabetes or elevated blood cholesterol levels.

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Inexpensive Gene Tests for Parents-to-Be

The new movie “Extraordinary Measures” is based on the true story of a father who starts a company to develop a treatment for the rare genetic disease threatening to kill two of his children before they turn 10.

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Bill would expand child psychiatric services

A bill intended to provide more psychiatric services in Kentucky for children now getting care out of state passed the House Health and Welfare Committee Thursday on a unanimous vote.

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Middle school investigates flu shot

The San Ysidro School District is investigating how a 13-year-old middle school student received the H1N1 flu vaccination last week over her objections and against the will of her parents.

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Disturbing signals

What on earth was she thinking?

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The Rise Of Marketing-Based Medicine

You’ve heard of evidence-based medicine. Well, a new paper summarizes a panalopy of practices employed over the past two decades or so - ghostwriting, suppressing or spinning data, disease mongering and managing side effect perceptions among docs - that the authors call marketing-based medicine. And they rely on internal documents from litigation - such as the much-publicized lawsuits over antipsychotics and antidepressants - to illustrate their point.

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Antidepressants May Complicate Breast-Feeding

Antidepressants May Complicate Breast-Feeding

A widely used class of antidepressants can cause delayed lactation in new mothers, which means they may need additional support in order to breast-feed their babies, a new study says.

Savings don’t justify changing state’s psychiatric drug policy, advocates say

Saddled with potential budget shortfalls in excess of $450 million, Iowa lawmakers are understandably on the lookout for ways to slash state spending. But some health care advocates are warning that proposed changes to prescription medication policies are shortsighted and will do far more long-term harm than good.

More >> Savings don’t justify changing state’s psychiatric drug policy, advocates say

Bipolar in Diapers

Among the many so-called adult diseases now being diagnosed among the diaper-set, one of the most startling is bipolar disorder.

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ASIA: ‘Post-Disaster Psychosocial Support a Must for Children’

When disaster strikes, acute stress disorders, especially among children, may follow. Yet the need for early psychosocial interventions is often overlooked, if not ignored.

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Doctors Vaccinate For Profit

Years ago children were sent up chimneys or sold as servants to earn their parents extra money. Now they are being vaccinated by doctors, to boost their takings. Doctors, Governments and Pharma see our children as their property and are making thousands of pounds/dollars/euros out of them right under our noses. This, they call ‘Health Care’, I call it the legalization of child labour.

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PsychRights whistleblower lawsuit against psychiatrists unsealed: Defendents listed

A major Medicaid Fraud lawsuit by Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) against psychiatrists, their employers, pharmacies, state officials, and a medical education-publishing company for their roles in fraudulent claims to Medicaid to drug mainly disadvantaged children and youth was unsealed, revealing a long list of defendants.

More >> PsychRights whistleblower lawsuit against psychiatrists unsealed: Defendents listed

Students get high on new legal herb

A legal herb with effects similar to marijuana is becoming increasingly popular among high school kids in Albuquerque.

AstraZeneca 'suppressed' drug test data

The marketing team sued over a drug's alleged side effects tried to suppress key data, an ex-employee has claimed.

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Psychiatrist admits she approved higher drug dosage in Riley trial

A Tufts Medical Center child psychiatrist today testified about how she had frequently approved higher dosages of psychotropic drugs for Carolyn Riley's two preschool daughters, often just after the mother admitted to doing it on her own anyway without asking the doctor.

More >> Psychiatrist admits she approved higher drug dosage in Riley trial

>> Doctor says mother gave child double dose at times

Psychiatric Medications and Children

It never fails to amaze me, and not in a good way, to hear a person say they are of the opinion that using psychiatric medication is "taking the easy way out".

Psychiatric Medications and Children

Medication Stolen From Wyo. Cancer Kid

A routine trip to a Colorado Target store has left a Wyoming mother and her son who is battling leukemia fuming at the theft of his life-saving medication.

U.S. doctors prescribing more psychiatric medications

Psychiatrists in the United States prescribed more psychotropic drugs to their patients in 2006 than they did a decade ago, according to an analysis by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Columbia University.

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Think They Don’t Electroshock People Anymore? Think Again–Even toddlers and pregnant women are being shocked

Ask the average person about the use of electroshock treatment in today’s society and 9 out of 10 will respond, “They still shock people?”

More >> Think They Don’t Electroshock People Anymore? Think Again–Even toddlers and pregnant women are being shocked

Antidepressants Tied To Preterm Births: Study

Among nearly 3,000 women who gave birth in Washington State, those who started taking SSRI antidepressants in the second or third trimester had a higher risk of preterm birth, according to Reuters, which cites a study in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Compared with others not given the meds, the women were nearly five times more likely to deliver prematurely. The same risk was not seen, however, among women who started on an SSRI before pregnancy or during the first trimester.

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Teen abuse of ADHD drugs skyrockets

Inquiries to poison control centers about teenage abuse of drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) increased by 76 percent over the last eight years, indicating a surge in rates of the abuse itself, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Memorial Center and published in the journal Pediatrics.

More >> Teen abuse of ADHD drugs skyrockets

U.S. Overdrugging Children and Seniors

According to Federal law and CMS regulations, the standard of intervention is the least restrictive intervention method necessary that is effective for safety and/or the least restrictive intervention necessary according to a professional judgment standard for treatment.

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Novel approach could speed up discovery for new psychiatric drugs

Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Harvard University have co-developed a system that captures on video and barcodes the behavioral responses of zebrafish to chemical compounds on a large scale. The approach could dramatically speed up the discovery of new psychiatric drugs.

More >> Novel approach could speed up discovery for new psychiatric drugs

Social worker says she warned family

Five months before 4-year-old Rebecca Riley died from an alleged overdose of psychotropic drugs, a Weymouth social worker warned the girl’s mother that the child seemed overmedicated and contacted the state’s child protection agency to say the family relied on an alarming amount of mood-altering medications.

More >> Social worker says she warned family

Port Counseling Center Wants to Help Protect Children From Drug ‘Epidemic’

Agnes Lasetchuk, executive director of Port Counseling Center, wants the parents of Port Washington to know that there are definite steps they can take to protect their children from what has been called an “epidemic” of heroin and opiate abuse in Nassau County.

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Kids doctor ‘misdiagnosed vulnerable children in care’

A PAEDIATRICIAN who treated children in care is accused of a string of misconduct allegations – including misdiagnosing vulnerable children and tricking NHS patients into seeing him privately.

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Child Protective Services and Psychological Evaluations

Know what the DSM IV is and the unfair and unequitable local judicial rules that work against you in a court of law. Understand what to look for in a psych evaluation. DO NOT do an evaluation unless the evaluator agrees to give you copies OF ALL their notes and diagnosis. Let the CPS caseworker and court know that you are willing to do an evaluation but only if the above is complied with. You do have a right to say no based on self incrimination. Voice record the verbal interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaA2ohqTNsQ

Guidelines on drug use in children with ADHD issued

Updated guidelines on the safe use of methylphenidate in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been issued by the MHRA.

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High drug error rate found in children’s treatment

Clinicians are making too many mistakes with drug treatments for children in hospital when prescribing or administering medicines, shows research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

More >> High drug error rate found in children’s treatment

New Market Alert!!!

As Haiti tries to recover from the disaster, one of the greatest challenges will be rebuilding infrastructure that includes good sanitation, clean water, and meals for the displaced. But the mental health of thousands of Haitians will be an issue long after international aid workers have left the country. Psychiatrists say it could be months before victims and their families feel the full effect of the earthquake, and that, they say, is when their work really begins.

More >> Psychiatrists Predict Haitians Face Long-term Mental Health Issues

Child obedience just a click away

Dealing with a defiant child can be made easier if you have internet access. That is because the Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic are offering their online expert help, and services, to those who need parental guidance or advice.

Green Mental Health: First Do No Harm

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Psychiatrist Hyla Cass says most psychiatrists simply label patients mentally ill based solely on symptoms and put them on dangerous and addictive drugs, instead of doing complete physical examinations to find and treat underlying medical conditions which can manifest as psychiatric symptoms. There are numerous non-harmful medical solutions that patients are not being offered. She also discusses the severe withdrawal effects of psychiatric drugs and what patients need to know about safely getting off of these drugs under a doctor's supervision.

Is Drugging Our Children The Answer Or Could A Natural Supplement Magnesium Help?

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been a commonly diagnosed illness occurring in children since the 1980s. Many people argue that ADHD should not be categorized as a disorder, but rather a set of problems that are normal to childhood. Either way, ADHD’s symptoms consist of wandering attention, nervousness, and hyperactivity. These symptoms can be extremely troubling for the parents and teachers that have to work with children suffering from ADHD. Drugs like Ritalin have been promoted ADHD treatments for many years, but have been found to have highly dangerous side effects and not be a solution to everything. Meanwhile, many nutritionists have discovered that many of the answers to ADHD can be found in a child’s diet in the form of food additives, sugar, and the missing essential nutrients.

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Catching Deadly Drug Mistakes

Catching Deadly Drug Mistakes

A nurse misunderstands an abbreviation on a pharmacy order, and gives an accidental overdose of a drug that slows the heart rate, killing the patient. Intravenous fluids are administered after surgery at too-high a rate to a child, who then dies because of the error. Confusion over a drug name leads to insulin being added to infant nutrition IV solutions instead of the intended medication, heparin, an anti-clotting drug: The consequences are fatal.

Children given wrong drug doses

Hospital doctors make mistakes in more than one in 10 prescriptions they write for children, far more than was previously thought, according to an authoritative study published today.

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Parents of kids with ADD struggle to pay for more than four hours of calm

Parents of children with attention deficit disorder are struggling to pay the full cost of medications that last longer than four hours.

More >> Parents of kids with ADD struggle to pay for more than four hours of calm

Are Patients Being Over-medicated?

A new study shows patients are using more drugs then they need. Some patients even see several different doctors for different ailments. No two doctors seem to know what the other is doing, and more medications are given then needed.

Emotional issues found among children affected by Hurricane Katrina

As the Gulf Coast pieces itself back together from Hurricane Katrina, a new study reveals the youngest victims of the category 3 storm still live with the devastation.

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Doctor wrote 1,000 scripts/week

Since 2004, a Miami psychiatrist has prescribed almost 14 million pills to Medicaid patients at a cost to taxpayers of $43 million, a state agency says.

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Miami psychiatrist defends his record over prescriptions

A state senator said a Miami psychiatrist `should be a poster boy' for tougher enforcement, while the doctor says he's been unfairly targeted

How a children's game proves ADHD really is all in the mind

The news will infuriate millions of parents who have children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A new British study has proved that children suffering from the behavioural disorder can control their symptoms - simply by learning self-discipline.

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Study Finds Disconnect Between Brain Regions in ADHD

New research shows that two brain areas fail to connect when children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) attempt a task that measures attention. Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain and M.I.N.D. Institute made this discovery by analyzing the brain activity in children with ADHD, and their paper appears in the current online issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry.

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Young children prescribed antipsychotic drugs

The number of young children diagnosed with bipolar disease has doubled in the past decade.

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Over-the-counter kids' medicines recalled

Parents, go take a look in your medicine cabinets right now: McNeil Consumer Healthcare has announced a recall of many popular over-the-counter medications for kids, including some versions of Motrin, St. Joseph's baby aspirin, and Tylenol.

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J&J paid kickbacks to hike sales of schizophrenia drug: prosecutors

J&J paid kickbacks to hike sales of schizophrenia drug: prosecutors

U.S. prosecutors said Friday that health care giant Johnson&Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks so nursing homes would put more patients on its blockbuster schizophrenia medicine and other drugs.

Children and ADRs (Adverse Drug Reactions)

Many medicines are prescribed to the paediatric population on an unlicensed or 'off-label'basis because they have not been adequately tested and/or formulated and authorized for use in appropriate paediatric age groups.

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Second-Generation Antipsychotics: Cost-Effectiveness, Policy Options, and Political Decision Making

The Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) and other recent research suggest that second-generation antipsychotics other than clozapine may offer few, if any, advantages over first-generation antipsychotics, especially agents of intermediate potency. Thus the newer agents are not likely to generate sufficient benefit to justify their $11.5 billion annual cost. Policy approaches for containing drug costs are available and could improve cost-effectiveness by encouraging that second-generation antipsychotics be prescribed more selectively, such as only when clearly indicated. However, restrictions on either drug availability or physician choice are vigorously opposed by professional and consumer advocacy groups as well as by industry, and excessively restrictive approaches could unintentionally reduce access to beneficial treatments. Interventions that directly reduce second-generation antipsychotic prices would increase access for consumers but are inconsistent with broad opposition to government price regulation in the United States. High expenditures on these medications are thus likely to continue without concomitant gains for public health.

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Bipolar diagnosis jumps in young children: study

The number of children aged 2 to 5 who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs has doubled over the past decade, according to research released on Friday.

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Mass. doctor accused of fraud by faking research

Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they have filed a health care fraud charge against a doctor accused of faking research for a dozen years in published studies that suggested after-surgery benefits from painkillers including Vioxx and Celebrex.

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Families of autistic kids sue over therapy's elimination

Families of autistic children in eastern Los Angeles County filed a class-action lawsuit today against the nonprofit agency that provides them with state-funded services, alleging that it had illegally discontinued their therapy for the disorder.

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Morphine May Help Traumatic Stress

Doctors have long hoped to discover a “morning-after pill” to blunt the often disabling emotional fallout from traumatic experiences. Now it appears that they have had one on hand all along: morphine.

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