A national study conducted by researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) shows increased use of powerful antipsychotic drugs to treat publicly insured children over the last decade. The study, published September 10 in the journal Health Services Research, found a 62 percent increase in the number of Medicaid-enrolled children ages 3 to 18 taking antipsychotics, reaching a total of 354,000 children by
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According to a new study published Tuesday, Mexican immigrant mothers performed better on some measures of parenting than white mothers did. The study, conducted by a research team from the University of California, Berkeley, found that Mexican-origin mothers provide “warm and supportive home settings,” engage in fewer conflicts with spouses and exhibit evidence of stronger mental health than their white peers, despite higher poverty
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Older men are more likely than young ones to father a child who develops autism or schizophrenia, because of random mutations that become more numerous with advancing paternal age, scientists reported on Wednesday, in the first study to quantify the effect as it builds each year. The age of mothers had no bearing on the risk for these disorders, the study found. Experts said
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