Month: October 2012

Kids with ADHD have dimmer prospects: study

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children with ADHD symptoms tend to fare worse as adults than do kids without problems in school, according to the longest follow-up study of the disorder to date. They have less education and lower income, on average, and higher rates of divorce and substance abuse, according to findings released today in the Archives of General Psychiatry. “A lot of them do fine, but there is a small proportion that is in a great deal of difficulty,” said Rachel Klein, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. …

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Indoor tanning still common in Germany

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Four in ten Germans ages 14 to 45 say they have tried indoor tanning and one in seven are current users, according to a survey out today. Germany enacted legislation banning minors from tanning salons in 2009. Yet five percent of 14- to 17-year-olds in the survey, which was done in 2011 and 2012, said they had used indoor tanning in the past year. “It’s unfortunately not surprising, because it is still a very common practice,” said Dr. Sophie J. Balk, an attending pediatrician at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York, who was not involved in the work. …

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Weight loss surgery tied to increase in drinking

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An "ultimate gin & tonic" is mixed at The Bazaar bar at the SLS hotel in Beverly HillsNEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People who had weight loss surgery reported greater alcohol use two years after their procedures than in the weeks beforehand, in a new study. "This is perhaps a risk. I don't think it should deter people from having surgery, but you should be cautious to monitor (alcohol use) after surgery," Alexis Conason, who worked on the study at the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, told Reuters Health. …

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Tennessee suspends NECC license after meningitis outbreak

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NASHVILLE (Reuters) – Tennessee, the state hardest hit by a rare outbreak of fungal meningitis, on Monday suspended the license of New England Compounding Center, the company which made the steroid linked to the deaths of 15 people The Pharmacy Board of Tennessee voted 7 to 0 to accept NECC’s offer to voluntarily surrender the license to operate in the state, said Bill Christian, spokesman for the state health department. The board took the action at a hearing to discuss the outbreak of meningitis, which has stricken 53 people in Tennessee and left six people dead in the state. …

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