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Psychiatry’s revamped DSM guidebook fuels debate
For ADHD, the definition is being broadened, meaning the disorder could be diagnosed in more children. In the case of autism, the opposite is true.The new criteria are among the changes that will be released with the publication this weekend of the long-awaited guidebook that psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians use to diagnose mental disorders. It’s the first major update in near
- Senate committee approves Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy to head EPA
- Oregon scientists get stem cells from cloned human embryos
- NASA’s Kepler space telescope malfunction may end hunt for planets
- World’s fish have been moving to cooler waters for decades, study finds
- Boston Marathon fund releases compensation formula for bombing victims
- Deal spares abortion doctor death penalty
- Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s space station music video is a first
- After Jolie’s disclosure, cancer group urges caution
- Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell convicted of murder in deaths of three infants
- About 40 percent of the diarrhea in young children is caused by four bugs, study finds
- Firefighting capacity for wildfires curbed by funding cuts, officials say
- Bodily waste from animals and humans can help solve the energy crisis, author says
- Sucking on your child’s pacifier might guard them from allergies, a study says
- Misdiagnosis and medical miscommunication have human costs
- Cockroaches are gross, but not all need to be squished
- Nervous, stressed? An app aims to put help in the palm of your hand.
- Eggs, even with their cholesterol, are a good source of protein for most people
- Side effects of prescription drugs can be reported and studied on Web sites
- Health law lets young people stay on a parent’s plan or buy their own insurance
- To help solve challenging cardiac problems, doctors at Children’s press ‘print’
- With breast cancer discovered at age 26, a young woman confronts her mortality
- Hospitals promote screenings that experts say many people do not need
- When one bubble pops, why do others form around it? Unlocking a bubble mystery
- Dolphin protection, tuna catch in conflict for U.S., Mexico
- About Prescriber Checkup, a tool for comparing health providers
- Strengthening Medicare’s drug benefit: 8 recommendations
- Dangers found in lack of safety oversight for Medicare drug benefit
- In rare unplanned spacewalk, astronauts hunt for mystery leak on space station
- International space station springs a leak; astronauts prepare for spacewalk to repair it
The Guardian (U.K.)
Is computing speed set to make a quantum leap?
Quantum mechanics research could hold the key to a new generation of super-fast computersOur imagination is stretched to the utmost," wrote Richard Feynman, the greatest physicist of his day, "not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things that _are_ there." Which is another way of saying that physics is weird. And particle physics – or q
- Human cloning developments raise hopes for new treatments
- Cannes 2013: Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) - first look review
- The Observer's 20 photographs of the week
- Meteor crashes into moon's surface causing flash – video
- From fact to fantasie: discovering the real Schumann
- Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary
- New US manual for diagnosing mental disorders published
- Spacewatch: Solar maximum
- Zombie climate sceptic theories survive only in newspapers and on TV | Graham Readfearn
- Children transcribe ancient texts in citizen science project
- Nasa's OSIRIS-REx to determine chance of asteroid colliding with Earth
- Obama's Arctic strategy sets off a climate time bomb | Nafeez Ahmed
- Book reviews roundup: Perilous Question, Big Brother and The Serpent's Promise
- The week in wildlife – in pictures
- Guardian Books podcast: Science, religion and the paranormal
- Royal Society Young People's Book Prize shortlist announced | @GrrlScientist
- Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist
- Challenge, don't worship, the chiefs and high priestesses of science | Alice Bell
- UK science is falling behind in the global race | Matthew Brown
- King Richard III facial model goes on display in Leicester
- The west's hidden propaganda machine | Eliane Glaser
- Element of the week: radium | video | @GrrlScientist
- Just say no to impact factors
- Brain-controlling magnets: how do they work? | Dean Burnett
- Youngsters use dementia drugs to boost brain power, survey finds
- IVF could be revolutionised by new technique, says clinic
- Letters: Boycott of Israel is a personal choice
- Kepler space telescope 'isn't down-and-out just yet' – Nasa
- Mild electric shocks to brain may help students solve maths problems
BBC (U.K.)
Deep sea 'gold rush' moves closer
The prospect of a deep sea "gold rush" opening a controversial new frontier for mining on the ocean floor has moved a step closer.
- Expert issues UK tree threat warning
- GPS 'improves early tsunami alerts'
- The Ice Age giants of North America
- Alien invaders wage 'biological war'
- Late arrival for rare butterflies
- Nasa buys into 'quantum' computer
- Space life 'too good not to share'
- Most distinct species mapped
- Fresh protests over Kunming plant
- Milestone in medical human 'cloning'
- Nasa's Kepler telescope breaks down
- Malaria parasite 'controls mosquito'
- Barefoot running injury concern
- Neutrinos spark 'new astronomy era'
- Ancient water found in Canadian mine
- UK company withdraws death row drug
- Clue to why women live longer
- DNA reveals origin of Minoan culture
- Four colossal Sun flares in 48 hours
- UK claims fish dumping ban success
- Tigers 'lacking variety' in mates
- 'Best estimate' of melting ice caps
- 'Mystery' condition hits sugar crops
- Tropical trees keep turbines turning
- Mayan pyramid destroyed in Belize
- Farne Islands 'puffin census' starts
- Black widow spider found in Aberdeen
- Can giant eagles spread their wings?
- VIDEO: Inside the human robot factory
NHS (U.K.)
Rise in number of unpaid carers and young carers
"Children are picking up the caring roles the state has abandoned," The Guardian says, while The Independent says that 180,000 children work as unpaid carers.These new figures come from the Office for National Statistics, which has pulled together data on unpaid care in England and Wales from the 2011 census.The census (which has been carried out every 10 years since the middle of the nine
- Time-lapse technique may boost success rate of IVF
- Absent fathers linked to depression risk in girls
- Human embryo stem cells cloning breakthrough
- Drug combination offers hope for osteoporosis
- 'Broken' body clock may be linked to depression
- Is the rise in neurological deaths due to modern life?
- Angelina Jolie's surgery to 'reduce breast cancer risk'
- Could a good mood make you eat more food?
- Novel coronavirus 'limited' spread between people
- No proof that red hair raises skin cancer risk
- Young blood may help rejuvenate old hearts
- Pollution may increase diabetes risk
- US guidelines recommend CT scans for smokers
- Are the middle classes in denial about alcohol use?
- Call for improved safety data on medical implants
- Antibiotics may help ease chronic back pain
- Hungry shoppers may choose unhealthier foods
- No evidence of cure to prevent hair going grey
- Breast cancer rates in under-50s at record high
- No proof kids of lone parents are less intelligent
- Young blood may help rejuvenate old hearts
- Pollution may increase diabetes risk
- US guidelines recommend CT scans for smokers
- Are the middle classes in denial about alcohol use?
- Call for improved safety data on medical implants
- Antibiotics may help ease chronic back pain
- Hungry shoppers may choose unhealthier foods
- No evidence of cure to prevent hair going grey
- Breast cancer rates in under-50s at record high
FOXNews.com - Health
Victims claim Marines failed to safeguard water supply
Marine Corps officials have repeatedly said that federal environmental regulations for these cancer-causing chemicals were not finalized under the Safe Drinking Water Act until 1989 -- about four years after the contaminated wells had been identified and taken out of service. But victims who have scoured decades-old documents say the military's own health standards should have raised red flags l
- Can you think yourself well?
- California doctor who promised 'cancer cure' gets 14 years prison
- Flesh-eating bacteria victim Aimee Copeland gets new bionic hands
- Computer games may improve 'chemo brain' in cancer patients
- What you need to know about new PSA screening guidelines
- Students visiting PSU come home with bedbug bites
- Experts devise new embryo selection method to boost IVF success
- Organic industry clout grows with consumer demand
- Warning over a dangerous drug called 'Molly'
- Combined supplements no better for cholesterol
- Keri Russell gets in fighting shape
- 10 things you're wasting time on at the gym
- Single yellow fever shot is enough, WHO says
- Up to 1 in 5 children suffer from a mental disorder, CDC says
- Lifestyle change may ease heart risk from job stress
- Are you working out the wrong way? Common fitness myths debunked
- Multiple concussions may be causing increase in military suicides, study finds
- Majority of pools are contaminated by poop, CDC says
- Could marijuana reduce diabetes risk?
- When it comes to cancer, information is power
- Vocal cord paralysis: Explaining Google CEO Larry Page's rare condition
- Skin cancer associated with lower risk of developing Alzheimer's, study finds
- Ultrasound procedure destroys fat
- Tiny preemies get a boost from live music therapy
- New SARS-like virus: WHO reports patient-to-nurse spread of deadly infection
- Nootropics: Can these smart drugs super-charge your career?
- The golden rules of sun protection
- FDA approves new drug to treat ulcerative colitis
- Shrinks, critics face off over psychiatric manual
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