July 8, 2008 – 4:24 pm | One Comment

In a move sure to stir controversy, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended on Monday that a more aggressive approach to treating high cholesterol in children should be implemented, even if it means prescribing …

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More Adventures of the HEADoc
June 30, 2008 – 2:01 pm | No Comment

My cat has lost her mind . . .
and I have no training in feline psychology. She’s 3 years old now. What’s that in human years, 16? Erroneously I thought I could keep her locked …

Cut and Run?
June 30, 2008 – 3:21 am | No Comment

This has been one of the weirdest weeks in my life. . .
as far as the thoughts and feelings I have experienced. The predominant feeling has probably been fear and I know that if there …

More Antipsychotic Drugs Get Stronger Warning Labels
June 17, 2008 – 5:31 pm | No Comment

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that some “conventional” antipsychotic prescription drugs must now carry a black box warning label just like the one that has come on newer antipsychotic drug labels …

Ten Percent of Adolescent Girls Admit to Either Binge Eating or Purging
June 13, 2008 – 8:34 pm | 7 Comments

According to the June 9, 2008 issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, one in ten teenage girls either binge eats or purges at least once a week. The incidence of purging was …

Parents’ Mental Disorders Linked to Child’s Autism
May 8, 2008 – 2:52 am | 6 Comments

Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC), have just released their findings on the association between a parent’s history of mental disorders when the parent also has an autistic child.  It seems …