What Doctors Don't Tell YouPaul Shattock and his colleagues first discovered the opioid-peptide connection with autism when studying the research on the behavioural effects of opioids, such as morphine, on animals.
For most of the last two terms, my youngest daughter Anya, now seven, has been struggling at school, particularly with maths. And although she could learn spelling perfectly, she was also struggling with writing.
An expert panel from the National Institutes of Health in America has called for a urgent review of the use of Ritalin (methylphenidate hydrochloride) in treating attention deficit hyperactivity d ...
Two lawsuits have been filed, in California and New Jersey, asserting that Novartis, the makers of Ritalin, and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) conspired to create a market for the comp ...
Two landmark US lawsuits have been filed alleging that attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were invented largely to promote the sale of the drug Ri ...
Work by scientists such as Dr Neil Ward, of the Chemistry Department, University of Surrey and advisor to HACSG, has emphasised the importance of zinc status, ingestion of additives and heavy meta ...
OUR KIDS COULD BE NEXT: A push for Ritalin is coming our way
Around five million children in the USA are taking some prescribed stimulant to treat their hyperactivity. The manufacturers are now turning to Europe in general, and the UK in particular,
I have a question for you. Cigarettes, alcohol, petrol, sugar and high-emission cars - which is the odd one out? All have a highly negative impact on our health.
The growing ‘grey’ population may be raking in the cash for drug companies, but look at the other end of the age spectrum and you’ll also see burgeoning trade. The number of children diagnosed with mental disorders, including attention...
