Reuters (5/31, Crist) reported that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) “may be more common in elite athletes,” researchers concluded after conducting a medical literature review. The findings were published online May 16 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

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— “ADHD may be more common among elite athletes, “Carolyn Crist, Reuters, May 31, 2019

Reuters (5/30, Carroll) reports researchers found that “seniors with declining vision are more likely than peers with good eyesight to experience discrimination as well as depression that may result from this bias.” The findings of the 7,677-adult study were published online in JAMA Ophthalmology.

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— “Seniors with vision loss experience discrimination, depression, “Linda Carroll, Reuters, May 31, 2019

Medscape (5/30, Melville, Subscription Publication) reports that “with a spectrum of cognitive and mental health symptoms known to affect people with multiple sclerosis (MS), new research suggests hoarding and cluttering may be among them.” Medscape adds, “Though preliminary, the study showed rates among those with MS to be more than twice that of the general population.” The findings of the 198-patient study were presented at the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers 2019 Annual Meeting.

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— “Increased Hoarding, Cluttering in MS?, “Nancy A. Melville, Medscape, May 30, 2019

Millions of consumers safely use loperamide, a prescription and over-the-counter anti-diarrheal medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Recent reports show a small but growing number of people are taking very high doses of loperamide in an attempt to self-manage opioid withdrawal or to achieve a euphoric high. At high doses, these individuals may be at risk of severe or fatal cardiac events. Learn more about preventing loperamide misuse at LoperamideSafety.org.

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— “Understanding Loperamide Abuse

MedPage Today (5/29, Hlavinka) reports, “Suicides increased among young people following the March 2017 release of 13 Reasons Why, the Netflix series exploring a fictional 17-year-old girl’s suicide, and were associated at least temporally with social media activity surrounding the show,” researchers concluded after gathering “1,416,175 tweets from 870,056 users and 26,322 Instagram posts from 7,875 influencers, who each had at least 15,000 followers,” then examining “monthly suicide data from the CDC’s Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) system from 1999 to 2017.” The findings were published online May 29 in JAMA Psychiatry. The authors of an accompanying editorial observed the study’s “findings still provide ‘compelling evidence’ that the uptick of suicides was related to the series.”

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