In contrast to recent findings, two of the most common medications used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not appear to cause genetic damage in children who take them as prescribed, according to a new study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Duke University Medical Cente…[more]

A study has found a link between low levels of Vitamin D and problems with ovulation.The research may offer a simple, cheap and safe option for women to try before resorting to drugs.The team from Yale University School of Medicine studied 67 infertile women and took Vitamin D measures from them. Only 7 per cent of them had normal vit…[more]

Headphones used with MP3 digital music players like the iPod may interfere with heart pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.The MP3 players themselves posed no threat to pacemakers and defibrillators, used to normalize heart rhythm. But strong little magnets inside the headphones can foul up the dev…[more]

Injuries in very young children are associated with later diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, UK research suggests.A study of 62,000 children shows both head and burn injuries before the age of two are linked with almost double the risk of ADHD diagnosis by age 10.The study also found that children who had a head injury after th…[more]

Researchers report that huge doses of an ordinary vitamin appeared to eliminate memory problems in mice with the rodent equivalent of Alzheimer's disease.At the moment, there's no way to know if the treatment will have the same effect in humans. Researchers are beginning to enroll Alzheimer's patients in a new study, and scientist…[more]

Girls with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appear to have better control of their movements than boys with the common mental disorder, a new study says.The study, published in the Nov. 4 issue ofNeurology, found that girls with ADHD and a control group of children without the disorder did twice as well as boys with…[more]

Could autism be linked to the climate? In the US, the states with the lowest rates of autism are in the southern parts of the country, while the highest rates are in the north. This paradox inspired a new study that collected rainfall data across California, Oregon and Washington.The rates of autism were highest among children in places wit…[more]

The master of the "techno thriller," Michael Crichton, has died at the age of 66. He was battling cancer. Crichton was best known for scary stories of science gone wrong in popular books like The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park.

After declining for four decades, rheumatoid arthritis is on the rise among women in the United States, according to new research.From 1955 to 1994, the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis was dropping, but the trends began to shift in the mid-1990s. The disease is now diagnosed in about 54 women out of every 100,000, compared to about 36 women…[more]

A recent study has revealed a strong possibility that parental age is the major predictor of autism, a development disorder. US researchers, analyzing the incidence of autism, observed, that it was three times more prevalent in the first born child, than the later born off-springs of younger parents.During examination of the recor…[more]