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...medical record on ADHD is said to have begun in 1902, when British pediatrician George Still published an account of 20 children in his practice who were "passionate," defiant, spiteful and lacking "inhibitory volition." Still made the then radical suggestion that bad parenting was not to blame; instead he suspected a subtle brain injury. This theory gained greater credence in the years following the 1917-18 epidemic of viral encephalitis, when doctors observed that the infection left some children with impaired attention, memory and control over their impulses. In the 1940s and '50s, the same constellation of symptoms was called...
...Mohammed S. Eftaiha, a Las Vegas pediatrician, says Kennedy skillfully shifted discussion to issues other than health care in order to solicit their support...
Doctors were mystified and intrigued. A pediatrician who had closely monitored the last two children wrote up the family's history in a 1972 medical journal as a classic example of how sudden infant death syndrome (or SIDS) can run in families. As for Hoyt, she went on to adopt a son, who is now 17. But she never forgot her dead offspring. She kept their photos throughout the house and laid flowers on their graves every Memorial Day. "She'd say, 'I miss my children. They all died on me -- you know, that crib disease,' " recalls Martha Nestle...
...Colorado Democrat favors economic sanctions against countries that tolerate genital mutilation. But many African-born women who live in the U.S. are opposed. "Sanctions are stupid," says Dr. Asha Mohamud, a Somali-born pediatrician in Washington. "The practice is not being done intentionally to harm anyone. Mothers do it in good faith for their children. If you cut funding to these countries, you are hurting the people you want to protect. The goal should be to improve the economic and educational status of women...
Knowing he needed help, he began collaborating with retrovirus researcher Eli Gilboa and Dr. Michael Blaese, an NIH pediatrician and expert in immunology. Over the next few years, Anderson submitted proposals for human gene-therapy trials to the NIH's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), which must approve such tests...