Perri Klass, MD, writes for the New York Times (7/8) “The Checkup” column that a “new study suggests that organized sports participation may be helpful for kids who are dealing with childhood trauma.” The study “looked at a national sample of 9,668 people” and “found people who had experienced traumatic events as children had better mental health outcomes as adults if they had participated in team sports during adolescence.” The study was published in JAMA.

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— “Team Sports May Help Children Deal With Trauma, ” Perri Klass, M.D., The New York Times, July 8, 2019

Reuters (7/8, Rapaport) reports, “Children who suffer adverse experiences tend to do worse in school than kids who don’t, but…parents may still help improve academic outcomes by simply talking to their kids,” researchers concluded after examining “survey data on almost 66,000 students ages six to 17 gathered during the 2011-2012 school year.” The findingswere published online in Pediatrics.

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— “Parents talking to kids may blunt negative impact of adversity on schoolwork, “Lisa Rapaport, Reuters, July 8, 2019

According to Healio (7/5, Demko), even though “the incidence of eating disorders was relatively low compared with some other mental disorders in Wales, patients with eating disorders had a higher burden of morbidity, other mental health problems and mortality,” researchers concluded in a study that involved some “15,558 people” who “received an eating disorder diagnosis between 1990 and 2017 in Wales.” The findingswere published online July 1 in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

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— “Long-term burden of morbidity, mortality in eating disorders, “Savannah Demko, Healio, July 05, 2019

The New York Times (7/3, Bakalar) reported that researchers have found that “hormone therapy for prostate cancer is associated with an increased risk for dementia.” The findings were published in JAMA Network Open.

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— “Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer Tied to Dementia, ” Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times, July 03, 2019

HealthDay (7/3, Gordon) reported, “Treating depression may have an added benefit for people with diabetes – longer life,” research indicated. The study, which included more than 53,000 Taiwanese, “found that antidepressants cut the risk of dying during the study period by more than one-third for people with diabetes and depression.” The findings were published online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

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— “Easing Depression Can Bring Longer Life to People With Diabetes, ” Serena Gordon, HealthDay, July , 2019