Ritalin: The ADHD drug may affect the developing brain

Ritalin – given to around 5 million young Americans diagnosed with ADHD (attention-deficit, hyperactive disorder) – may affect the developing brain.
Ritalin (methylphenidate) is a stimulant similar to amphetamine and cocaine, and it seems to have a paradoxical effect on ADHD children, and calms them.
But it may do so at a price, new research suggests.  The [...]

Breast implants linked with suicide in study

Wed Aug 8, 2007 7:10PM EDT
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Women who get cosmetic breast implants are
nearly three times as likely to commit suicide as other women, U.S.
researchers reported on Wednesday.
The study, published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery, reinforces
several others that have shown women who have breast enlargements have
higher suicide [...]