When moms on welfare work, kids may lag in vaccines

When moms on welfare work, their children may be somewhat less likely to get their vaccinations on time, a new study suggests.

When moms on welfare work, kids may lag in vaccines

Medical mafia in Australia to force parents to medicate ADHD children

The typical treatment recommendation for children diagnosed with psychiatric or mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) includes a combination of behavior and drug therapies. Such treatments are legally optional, but the Australian government’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is actually considering mandating that parents of diagnosed children accept the prescribed drug treatments or else face the wrath of child protective services.

Medical mafia in Australia to force parents to medicate ADHD children

Antipsychotic Drug Use an Indicator of National Decline

eady for a shock? Twenty-five percent of American women take medication for a mental disorder. Think about that. Let me repeat: One in four—a quarter of the women in America—take at least one antipsychotic drug. Some take several drugs.

Antipsychotic Drug Use an Indicator of National Decline

Diabetes Mellitus In Children Linked To Antipsychotic Meds: Study

Diabetes mellitus in children may be tied to them increasingly being prescribed antipsychotic medications, a study suggests.

Diabetes Mellitus In Children Linked To Antipsychotic Meds: Study

Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to Youths in Foster Care

Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to Youths in Foster Care

Foster children are being prescribed cocktails of powerful antipsychosis drugs just as frequently as some of the most mentally disabled youngsters on Medicaid, a new study suggests.

Canadian Kids are All on Drugs

The number of prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs for kids in Canada more than doubled between 2005 and 2010. A study in the journal Pediatrics & Child Health shows that the number of prescriptions jumped 114 per cent across those years, despite most antipsychotics not being cleared for use in Canada among people younger than 17. The drugs are used to offset the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactive disorder, autism, mood disorders, and all manner of behavioural problems in kids as young as six. According to Postmedia‘s Sharon Kirkey and Pamela Fayerman:

Canadian Kids are All on Drugs

Refuse vaccines and risk dismissal by doctor

It's not unusual for a patient to change doctors. Doctors retire, families move, insurance changes.

Refuse vaccines and risk dismissal by doctor

Doctors see surge in newborns hooked on mothers' pain pills

Medical authorities are witnessing explosive growth in the number of newborn babies hooked on prescription painkillers, innocent victims of their mothers' addictions.


Doctors see surge in newborns hooked on mothers' pain pills

British TV survey exposes drugging of children

Almost immediately after the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scandal emerges about its withholding of information regarding the safety of vaccines, another tale of needless drug exposure gets the spotlight treatment. There is worry now as pharmaceutical companies block approaches made to the authorities with regards to any data outlining the long-term effects of antipsychotic drugs on children.

British TV survey exposes drugging of children

Study: Millions of Kids' Antibiotic Prescriptions Unneeded

Pediatricians write more than 10 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions—for conditions like the flu and asthma—every year, suggests a new study.

Study: Millions of Kids' Antibiotic Prescriptions Unneeded

STATE OF CONFUSION ON CHILD DRUGGING

Shoddy record-keeping by the Department of Juvenile Justice is hampering the agency’s own investigation into the dosing of jailed children with powerful antipsychotic drugs, the department’s head told a top state lawmaker this week.

STATE OF CONFUSION ON CHILD DRUGGING

Over-reliance on Psychiatric Medication in Children: A Pediatrician's View

Over-reliance on Psychiatric Medication in Children: A Pediatrician's View

This weekend I was scheduled to speak at a conference in LA sponsored by the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry entitled "Alternatives to Biological Psychiatry." Unfortunately, due to a family emergency, I was unable to attend. As I had already prepared my talk, I decided to translate it into a blog post.

Federal Government Wants To Test Anthrax Vaccine On Children

Terrorists could use the potentially deadly Anthrax bacteria on an attack against the United States, and there is plenty of vaccine stockpiled for use against this and other possible biological agents of warfare. However they have never been tested on children so the effectiveness and possible side effects of the vaccines are unknown in children.

Federal Government Wants To Test Anthrax Vaccine On Children

The Diagnosing and Drugging of 'ADHD' Children -- An American Tragedy Worsens

The Diagnosing and Drugging of 'ADHD' Children -- An American Tragedy Worsens

The diagnosing of millions of children with ADHD in order to medicate them with stimulants and other psychoactive chemicals is an American tragedy, growing into a worldwide catastrophe. Never before in history has a society attempted to deal with its children by drugging a significant portion of them into conformity while failing to meet their needs in the home, school and society. The ethical scientist or physician, the concerned parent or teacher, must feel stricken with grief and dumbfounded that we have allowed the interests of powerful advocacy groups to completely override the interests of our children.

Report Finds Parent Training Effective for Treating Young Children With ADHD

Formal training in parenting strategies is a low-risk, effective method for improving behavior in preschool-age children at risk for developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), while there is less evidence supporting the use of medications for children younger than 6 years old, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Report Finds Parent Training Effective for Treating Young Children With ADHD

Labeling tantrums a mental illness doesn't help

Dr. Claudia M. Gold is a pediatrician and author of "Keeping Your Child in Mind: Overcoming Defiance, Tantrums and Other Everyday Behavior Problems by Seeing the World Through Your Child's Eyes."

Labeling tantrums a mental illness doesn't help

Maine doctor protests national anthrax testing on children

The Obama administration is wrestling with the thorny question of whether scientists should inject healthy children with the anthrax vaccine to see whether the shots would safely protect them against a bioterrorism attack.

Maine doctor protests national anthrax testing on children

CDC Panel May Push HPV Vaccine for Boys

CDC Panel May Push HPV Vaccine for Boys

A committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to decide today whether to recommend routinely vaccinating boys and young men against sexually transmitted forms of human papillomavirus, the cause of most cervical and anal cancers as well as most mouth and throat cancers.

We are drugging our children for being children

Re: New rules drop age for use of Ritalin-type drugs, Oct. 17

These new guidelines issued to doctors for prescribing psychostimulant drugs to children as young as four are a step in the wrong direction.

We are drugging our children for being children

More Than One in Ten Americans Take an Antidepressant

11% of Americans aged 12 and up now take an antidepressant medication, though less than one third of them have seen a mental-health professional in the past year.

More Than One in Ten Americans Take an Antidepressant