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The number and deadly impact of school shootings are alarming, from Columbine and Virginia Tech to Sandy Hook and more recent tragedies in Florida and Texas. These events have prompted calls for widespread increases in mental health funding for screening and services....

Texas schools have proven that more recess – totally unstructured playtime – results in less psychiatric diagnoses (anxiety, anger, and ADHD). When kids at Eagle Mountain Elementary in Fort Worth, Texas were allowed 4 unstructured recess breaks, they were less fidgety...

While national attention is focused on the abuse of narcotics like opioids, massive increases in prescriptions and illegal use of benzodiazepines is going unnoticed.  “Benzos” are in a class called sedative/hypnotics. Three of the benzodiazepines are on the top ten lis...

Low inflammation foods, probiotics, and a couple of well-known nutritional supplements really do help the symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease. A new study reports on a detailed review of scientific evidence weighing the value of non-drug interventions for diseases l...

Drug makers are in the business of selling drugs, not helping you get off of them. But the dangers of long term acid-reducing drugs for reflux puts millions of patients at risk for kidney damage, hip fractures, and pneumonia, to name a few of the nastier side effects.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is being asked to reopen investigations into the makers of Celexa (Forest, now owned by Allergan) for deliberately misleading the government. Earlier lawsuits in 2010 eventually resolved when Forest paid out a total of over $313 million...

Screening mammograms in women over 50 do not significantly improve cancer survival, and instead lead to a 32% increase in dangerous over-diagnosis. A new study tracked the death rates in women 50 and older in the Netherlands, where every-other-year mammography is recom...

A ketogenic diet (very high fat/low carb) prolongs life, improves memory and muscle strength, and reduces tumor incidence, at least in lab mice. A new study from UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine adds to a growing quantity of evidence that the ketogenic diet promo...

Total cholesterol and LDL (low density) cholesterol in men have been found in a long-term study to be linked to a lower risk of developing Parkinson’s. This was discovered by reviewing the lifetime medical history of over 261,000 men over age 40 not taking any statin d...

A national poll and found marijuana users were 3.42 times more likely to die from hypertension than non-users. Twenty-one percent of adults over 20 were chronic users of marijuana, for an average duration of 11.5 years.

Increased use of marijuana has generated some irre...