AUSTIN, Texas - More than half of American college students have considered suicide at some points in their lives, a new survey reveals.
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WASHINGTON - Using stimulants like Ritalin to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, particularly younger ones, does not seem to boost the risk of later substance abuse, researchers said on Tuesday.
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And those pushed around tend to exhibit attention problems, study finds

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Researchers found that children with ADHD were almost four times as likely as other youngsters to be bullies.
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Delayed development in regions that focus attention, study finds

WASHINGTON - Crucial parts of brains of children with attention deficit disorder develop more slowly than other youngsters’ brains, a phenomenon that earlier brain-imaging research missed, a new study says.
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Placebos may work as well in many, but that might not include you
There’s little question antidepressants are overprescribed and that many people who take the most popular drugs in America might do just as well with therapy or even a trip to the gym.
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CHICAGO - Teenagers whose initial drug treatment fails to combat depression, which happens in four out of 10 cases, can be helped by switching medicine and adding psychotherapy, a U.S. study published on Tuesday said.
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Mike and Kim Bowman of Forreston, Ill., testified on Capitol Hill last December before the House Veteran’s Affairs Committee hearing on mental health issues and suicides facing veterans. Their son, Tim Bowman, pictured in the foreground, committed suicide after serving in the Iraq war with the Illinois National Guard, Bravo Troop, 106 Calvary.
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Variety of mutations keep brain from forming proper connections

WASHINGTON - Harvard researchers have discovered half a dozen new genes involved in autism that suggest the disorder strikes in a brain that can’t properly form new connections.
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Thousands already use process based on mercury-in-vaccines theory
CHICAGO - Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.
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Finding could open new avenues of research into condition’s cause

CHICAGO - U.S. researchers have found a genetic link between autism and a muscle-weakening disorder known as mitochondrial disease, they said on Sunday, in a finding that may open new avenues of research into the causes of autism.
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