Mixed Amphetamine Salts Most Effective in the Treatment of ADHD in Youths Reports the SUNY Upstate Medical Center: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance:
“The larger effect sizes we calculated for stimulant ADHD medications, compared to nonstimulants or the novel stimulant modafinil, leads us to conclude that amphetamine and methylphenidate based stimulant medications are more effective in treating symptoms of ADHD,” said Stephen V. Faraone, Ph.D., lead researcher and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University. “Our results should help physicians who have had to rely on qualitative comparisons among published trials, along with their own clinical experience, to draw conclusions about an ADHD medication’s relative efficacy because of largely absent direct head-to-head drug comparisons.”
FYI
(Via Yahoo! Finance.)
Psychiatric Drug Use by Children Reviewed By The FDA:
“There is no question we need to do long-term clinicaltrials with kids and psychiatric drugs.” He said the companies, the FDA, and the NIMH should pool their money and establish those trials.
Interesting article on the current state of psychotropic medications used to treat AD/HD, Depression, and Anxiety and their efficacy with and effects on children.
(Via Psychiatric Times.)
Boca grad student creates natural study focus pill:
Spanish River High School alumnus Justin Hertzberg wanted a natural alternative to the prescription drugs that his college peers used — often illegally — as study aids.
So the 25-year-old University of Miami graduate student teamed up with friend Jason Neufeld to create a nonprescription pill that they say increases concentration with natural ingredients such as green tea, guarana, caffeine and vitamin B.
(Via Palm Beach Post.)
Word. This is awesome. And they even have a mac version…
(I wonder if I could turn off this thing at the bottom though… (not that I’d want to))
(ooh they use CSS for the formatting…)
my previous post on 3rd party blogging clients in which I recommended MTClient, which is now easily superseded by the effortlessness of Qumana…
AND it even links the posts to their archive (permalinked) pages!!!
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[edit: you can turn off the Qumana credit-thing… // The paragraph formatting is making things look weird on here… though that is configurable. Part is perhaps due to the textile plugin I’ve got on here, which I can’t decide whether to disable or what. Since I never actually use the textile syntax. Then there’s Markdown by Dean Allen. Meh. I wish I could specify on a post-by-post basis (and this was accessible via my blogging clients–or at least wordpress was smart enough to decide whether to use the syntax based on where the post was coming from) like the “auto line-break” feature is in movable type. [(I’ll link everything up later…)]
edit: OK. Well, it was a nice try at least. I have now given up Qumana until they release a decently abled version. WYSIWYG was nice, except when it didn’t WORK. (You can’t select anything unless you’re in source mode… among other things. Gets frustrating quite quickly.)
Conservative think tank launches climate-skeptic TV ads:
“Carbon dioxide: They call it pollution; we call it life.” Nope, not a story in The Onion. That’s the punch line of two TV ads that the industry-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute began airing in 14 U.S. cities yesterday, timed to correspond with the big-screen debut of Al Gore’s climate-change movie …
I’m… Speechless. Hooray for politicizing science. Ya arseholes.
(Via Daily Grist.)
Coming soon… Will redirect here…
Got it for free when I signed up over at 1and1.com for 2.99 a month webspace (what a freakin’ deal…!)
EDIT: Now Live! APOCTRACK.INFO
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Bush won’t watch Gore’s movie - Politics - MSNBC.com
Bush won’t watch Gore’s movie - Politics - MSNBC.com:
Again. Simply stunning. I just don’t know what to say except DAMN.
(Via MSNBC.)