National Health Interview Survey

• Quest's oncology center of excellence in Lewisville, TX, will serve as the single site to support testing for the study.
• A leader in advanced oncology diagnostics, Quest specializes in testing for inherited genetic disorders and tumor sequencing for colorectal and other cancers.
• This collaboration will make it more likely that patients in the United States will, over time, have a convenient, quality and accessible option to screen for colorectal cancer."
• "UDX has created a promising method of screening for colorectal cancer with a simple blood test that includes the ability to detect advanced adenomas.

• ADHD is diagnosed using criteria from a document called DSM-5, which include symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity.
• But it is becoming increasingly clear to researchers that the condition also comes with self-control problems, affecting the ability to regulate emotions.
• For example, 2.1% of children with a diagnosis of ADHD also have a mood disorder, such as depression, while 27.4% have an anxiety disorder.
• Children with anxiety and depression symptoms only exhibited those deficits if they also had problems with attention.
• So it seems that one possible route to helping children with ADHD or mood disorders with cognitive development is to focus on improving their attention.

Treatments

• Methylphenidate roughly works by increasing three chemicals in the brain: dopamine, serotonin and noradrenaline.
• Dopamine can improve attention, learning, working memory and motivation, while noradrenaline reduces impulsivity and boosts attention.
• This research suggests that cognitive control, which is associated with frontal areas, can be improved by methylphenidate.
• This should be offered to children with ADHD, in conjunction with pharmacological treatments.

ADHD on the rise

• The number of ADHD diagnoses are rising across the world, and so are prescriptions of methylphenidate.
• In the UK, a study estimated that the use of ADHD medications has increased by almost 800% from 2000 to 2015.
• It may be that the prevalence of ADHD will increase even more in the future as coping strategies become less effective and people seek help and ultimately receive a diagnosis.
• The more we learn about brain basis of ADHD, the easier it will get to treat.

• The study found that nearly all subgroups of LGB adults in the United States reported higher levels of poor or fair health status, functional limitation, severe psychological distress, and difficulties with health care affordability than their heterosexual counterparts.
• "Health inequities are driven by minority group stress and multifaceted societal marginalization.
• "Health Status and Health Care Access Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults in the US, 2013-2018" was authored by researchers at The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard T.H.
• Chan School of Public Health, and Vanderbilt University and contributes to the growing body of evidence demonstrating that societal marginalization is a persistent driver of health inequities.

• One-in-five survey respondents (19.6 percent) indicated that this was a reason they had delayed dental care.
• 13 percent gave fear of pain as a reason dental care was put off.
• 9.5 percent of respondents postponed dental care because their dental plan did not cover the treatment and 4 percent reported care was delayed because their dentists were out-of-network.
• One contributing factor to dental access problems for seniors is that Original Medicare does not include routine dental coverage.