Stephen Judd

Treat em all and let God sort them out

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Selling Adult ADHD: NPR coverage helps advance drug industry marketing campaign - HealthNewsReview.org

The gist of the news was the researchers’ claim that “six simple questions” can reliably diagnose adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. And diagnose it they did: the researchers found that 8.2% of those sampled suffered from ADHD, almost double that found from a comparable study about 10 years ago.

I wish health journalists had asked one simple question in order to give their readers much needed context: Who funded the research? Just follow the money.