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A recent study has discovered that children with both ADHD and recent-onset epilepsy display a unique brain morphology compared to healthy patients.

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Traumatic life events are often associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Prebiotics and probiotics have been discussed frequently in the media for supposedly improving overall health, especially diseases related to the gut. However, the evidence on the efficacy and use of these dietary supplements is rather complicated.

After studying an Amish population, researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center have discovered a mutation in a fat-storage gene that increases a patient's risk for type 2 diabetes.

Parents of children with ADHD feel they have insufficient and impersonal knowledge about the condition.

A new study in mice of the multiple sclerosis drug fingolimod (Gilenya) suggests the drug may be a new therapeutic target for a treatment of post-traumatic stress and other anxiety disorders.

A new study indicates that treating hyperlipidemia, glucose intolerance, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, and other risk factors associated with atrial fibrillation can dramatically reduce the burden of the disease or eliminate it entirely.

When testing patients for HIV, healthcare professionals should also test for sexually transmitted infections.

Profoundly deaf children who receive cochlear implants had up to 5 times the risk of delays in areas of working memory, controlled attention, planning, and conceptual learning as children with normal hearing.

The behavior of a particular prion-like protein is associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and several other neurodegenerative disorders.

Dietary sugars are thought to be a cause of obesity, chronic disease, and a variety of cardiometabolic risk factors, but little hard evidence of a causal relation has been found.

Children delivered by cesarean section and those given antibiotics early in infancy may be more prone to developing allergic inflammation of the esophagus.

Research from the Mayo Clinic suggests that an order set designed to standardize the treatment of anaphylaxis in emergency departments may lead to improved guideline adherence and better treatment outcomes.

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Research presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists indicates that testosterone replacement therapy may reduce the risk of cardiovascular events, contradicting two widely reported studies.

Patients with psoriatic arthritis may be at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, so physicians must carefully weigh the pros and cons of treatment with corticosteroids and other proatherogenic drugs.

Noting that this year marks the 25th anniversary of the discovery of hepatitis C, health officials ramped up a public awareness campaign during the month of May to encourage more testing for hepatitis among at-risk populations.

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Total number of hospitalizations increased by more than 23%, while associated treatment costs rose but mortality declined.

Study results announced at the 11th European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Spring Symposium show tofacitinib met its two primary efficacy endpoints.

New research may help doctors predict when patients who have suffered one attack of anaphylaxis will undergo a second attack without any additional exposure to the original trigger.

A Swedish pharmaceutical company has been granted approval by the European Commission to market the drug simeprevir for the treatment of genotype 1 and 4 chronic hepatitis C infection.

Study of obese men with low testosterone and type 2 diabetes showed no benefits from treatment with intramuscular testosterone undecanote in glucose metabolism or visceral adiposity.

Study results show that pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee often exhibits neuropathic pain characteristics.

Because these medications are immunosuppressants, careful monitoring is required in patients to guard against comorbid infection and other side effects.

Patients treated with too much or too little warfarin for atrial fibrillation (AF) are significantly more likely to develop dementia than patients who maintain proper medication levels.

New research shows that food allergies may have increased more far more quickly among black children than among American children as a whole, leading to increased risk of anaphylaxis.

Since inactivity accounts for 10-16% of breast cancers, colon cancers, and diabetes cases, as well as 22% of heart disease, some researchers believe too much sitting can cause just as much harm as smoking.

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