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According to a CDC report, 1 in 5 children ages 3 to 17 has a mental illness, and an article in Bloomberg News reports that $247 billion are spent each year treating these patients. This figure is increasing “along with the number of kids hospitalized for mood disorders, substance abuse and other...

A new study in PLoS ONE finds that infection with the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum causes alterations in behavioral responses to host-derived olfactory stimuli in host-seeking female Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto mosquitoes. Researchers found “significantly more infected mosquitoes...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Postsurgical radioiodine treatment (RIT) has helped many children and adolescents living in Belarus who developed advanced radiation-induced differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) after the Chernobyl reactor meltdown. “Our long-term observational study in a large group of very...

An article in Bloomberg News poses the question “Should patients undergoing broad DNA testing for a specific ailment be told of unexpected findings that signal risk of cancer or other serious diseases, even if they don’t request the information?” A team of ethicists explained that...

An article in The New York Times explains that vast databases of doctor and patient information are being used by pharmaceutical companies to market their drugs, and many doctors feel this information should not be available to them. The information from these databases allows pharmaceutical companies to...

A new clinical image from The New England Journal of Medicine presents a 65-year-old man with a 10-year history of involuntary movements of his left hand. “Neurologic examinations showed hemichorea in his left arm that disappeared during sleep. Computed tomography of the brain revealed a calcified...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In women previously treated for Hodgkin lymphoma, mammography is as sensitive as breast MRI in detecting breast cancer – and the two modalities together improve the detection of early disease, a new study shows. “Early diagnosis is particularly important in these patients,...

A new article in The New York Times reports “Scientists have finally succeeded in using cloning to create human embryonic stem cells.” Researchers “took skin cells from a baby with a genetic disease and fused them with donated human eggs to create human embryos that were genetically...

An article in The New York Times reports that “Even with the withdrawal from Iraq and the pullback in Afghanistan, the rate of suicide within the military has continued to rise significantly faster than within the general population, where it is also rising.” There was a record high of 350 suicides in...

An article in Bloomberg News reports “Two drugs from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) shrank tumors in as many as half of patients with advanced melanoma, according to early research that may pave the way for cocktails that trigger the immune system to destroy cancer.” A study found the amount of...