I previously wrote about research questioning the long-term use of Ritalin for ADHD. More recently, the State of California conducted an audit of psychotropic drug prescriptions in four representative counties, including Sonoma (the county in which I myself live). Apparently, foster children are prescribed too many of these drugs and often at too high a […]
Sep 27 2016
California Foster Care Children Over-Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs
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Dec 16 2015
Fetal Medicine for Down Syndrome
Down syndrome, also called trisomy 21, is perhaps best known for its role in delayed intellectual development and obvious physical characteristics. Possible errors in over 200 proteins encoded for by the DNA can wreak health havoc. Medical researchers are beginning to focus on ways to fix the biochemistry, giving hope that early detection will result […]
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Sep 25 2015
Toxic School Lunches
Healdsburg Patch has a good article about a study of BPA in children’s school lunches. Here’s one more reason to send lunch from home if you can afford it and to take political action either way: Low-income children are particularly at risk of BPA exposure because they are more likely to eat federally funded meals […]
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Dec 18 2014
Soy and Health: Urban Myth?
Is soy a wonder food or full of poison? The Weston A. Price Foundation filed a lawsuit on December 16, 2014 against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). At issue is that the FDA allows products to make health claims about soy protein’s effect on coronary heart disease. (Source: Citizens for Health, “Group Files […]
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Nov 28 2014
Children Need to Direct Themselves
Here is evidence that too many children’s lives are over-scripted at the expense not only of their free time, but also of their cognitive development. Psychologists at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO (USA) and the University of Denver in Denver, CO published their research in the June 17, 2014 Frontiers in Psychology journal […]
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