Diagnoses Of Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Increasing In US Kids.

HealthDay (5/6, Gordon) reports, “Significantly more US children have a neurodevelopmental or mental health disability than did a decade ago,” according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies’ annual meeting. Researchers arrived at that conclusion after having “reviewed data from two National Health Interview Surveys conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They included more than 102,000 parents of children from infancy through” age 17.

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— “More Kids Diagnosed With Mental Health Disabilities, Study Finds, “Serena Gordon, HealthDay, May 5, 2013.

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