Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is one of the most common childhood disorders, its symptoms often beginning to appear between the ages of 3 and 6, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
“ADHD is virtually invisible,” says 10th-grade English teacher Christine White.
They each weigh about 2.5 milligrams and fly about 1.5 mph. You might think of them more as annoying pests than anything else.
They are, however, far more than annoying – they’re the most dangerous creatures on Earth.
Mosquitoes.
Q: Who should decide when kids are immunized?
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Federal officials confiscated from Clark County five vials of the steroid linked to a national meningitis outbreak, a health official said Thursday.
A 75-year-old woman stricken last month with the year’s first documented local case of West Nile virus has died, and four other Southern Nevadans have come down with the disease, the Southern Nevada Health District reported Tuesday.
Shannon West Redwine’s bones scream the scream that only she can hear – she describes it as a high-pitched whine accompanying the excruciating pain from chemotherapy-induced stress fractures in her back. She pants like a woman in the last stages of labor.
So often Dr. Heather Allen sees it – a patient arrives, most often a woman, with anxiety buzzing inside her head like a power drill.
Fear is a natural response to a threat, the physician knows, and the threat her patient has received – a diagnosis of breast cancer – can leave her patient too shell shocked to focus on survival, particularly if she does not believe a legitimate counterattack is at hand.
Like many of us, Michael Towns once struggled to lose weight due to inconsistent dieting and overeating, and that struggle came with a series of health complications.
