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...believed that the symptoms of ADHD faded with maturity. Now it is one of the fastest-growing diagnostic categories for adults. One-third to two-thirds of ADHD kids continue to have symptoms as adults, says psychiatrist Paul Wender, director of the adult ADHD clinic at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Many adults respond to the diagnosis with relief -- a sense that "at last my problem has a name and it's not my fault." As more people are diagnosed, the use of Ritalin (or its generic equivalent, methylphenidate), the drug of choice for ADHD, has surged: prescriptions...
When drug therapy works, says Utah's Wender, "it is one of the most dramatic effects in psychiatry." Roseman tells how one first-grader came into his office after trying Ritalin and announced, "I know how it works." "You do?" asked the doctor. "Yes," the child replied. "It cleaned out my ears. Now I can hear the teacher." A third-grader told Roseman that Ritalin had enabled him to play basketball. "Now when I get the ball, I turn around, I go down to the end of the room, and if I look up, there's a net there...
...Harvard Medical School group, along with an expert from the University of Utah, advised the task force on the subjects' danger of cancer...
...measure, the President's speech commemorating the veterans' sacrifice at Omaha Beach was one of sensitivity and grace. Earlier, he paid tribute to the Rangers who had climbed the forbidding cliffs at Pointe du Hoc with ladders and grappling hooks. He stopped by Utah Beach before arriving at Colleville-sur-Mer, where nearly 10,000 Americans from all of Europe's battlefields are buried. The hand of Providence seemed for once to touch Clinton, who has had his share of ceremonial glitches. Just as he began to speak the sun came out, etching in breathtaking brilliance the white crosses against...
...find balance between men and women or between formal authority and individual conscience," says Maxine Hanks, a fifth-generation Mormon whose book Women & Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism claims women exercised priesthood powers in the 19th century when church followers were struggling to establish themselves in the Utah desert. "Contemporary Mormon women should reclaim their lost authority," she says. For holding such views, however, Hanks and other women have been excommunicated...