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An average 6.1 million physician visits in 2012 to 2013 were made by children aged 4 to 17 with a primary diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

U.S. Children Make Over 6 Million Office Visits/Year for ADHD

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Number represents 6 percent of all children's visits to the doctor in 2012-2013
Short-term memory loss may be yet another price of America's opioid addiction epidemic

Unusual Amnestic Syndrome Seen With Opioid Abuse

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Drug abuse may cause an unusual short-term memory syndrome
Depression is common among kidney failure patients undergoing dialysis

Nephrologists Often Don’t Treat Depression in Dialysis Patients

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Also, many dialysis patients do not wish to receive aggressive treatment for their depression
For patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Economic Benefit for Combo Statin/TG-Specific Tx in T2DM

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Greatest cost reduction for statin/TG-specific-treated patients with TG level drop of ≥30 percent
For overweight or obese adults

Review: Intentional Weight Loss Improves Daytime Sleepiness

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Large improvement in daytime sleepiness with surgical weight loss interventions
A new approach to alter the gut microbiome and virome may be an effective treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder

Microbiota Transfer Therapy Could Help Children With Autism

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Preliminary research finds benefits from the new approach in young patients with ASD
Inactivity is associated with greater risk of prediabetes and diabetes

Prediabetes Linked to Sedentary Lifestyle, Even in Slim Adults

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Sedentary lifestyle often overlooked when thinking in terms of healthy weight, researcher says
Strategies to help overweight or obese women limit their weight gain during pregnancy don't seem to alleviate the risk for obstetric complications

SMFM: No Benefit to Limiting Pregnancy Weight Gain in Obese

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Research suggests obesity's effects on a pregnancy may begin before conception
Anxiety and depression may increase the risk of death from certain cancers

Anxiety, Depression May Up Mortality Risk for Some Cancers

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Higher death rates seen for colorectal, esophageal, pancreatic, and prostate cancers, leukemia
Despite the dangers

28% of Adults, 9% of Teens Use Tobacco Products in U.S.

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About 40 percent of tobacco users report use of multiple products