HealthDay News: ADHD Drugs can Stunt Growth

"A new review of past studies on the effect that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs have on children's growth concludes that the drugs do, in fact, suppress growth to some degree."

"While the effect found was statistically significant, one of the study's authors, Dr. Omar Khwaja, an instructor in neurology at Children's Hospital Boston, said the average growth suppression for a 10-year-old boy was probably about three-quarters of an inch in height and a little more than two pounds in weight."

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CNETnews.com: Google Site to Aid the Blind

"Google was set to unveil a Web search site on Thursday designed to help blind people find results that will work best with their text-to-speech software."
"The new Google Accessible Search site, which will be available at labs.google.com/accessible early on Thursday, prioritizes the list of search results based on how simple the Web page layouts are."

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Popular Science: Cracking the Autism Puzzle

"Scientists home in on elusive autism genes and the environmental factors that may trigger them." "Can a blood test to check for autism in newborns be far behind?" "What causes the disease, which now strikes 1 in every 166 children, and why does it affect four times as many boys as girls?"

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Popular Science: Waiting for an Arm and a Leg

"The next generation of artificial limbs- fused directly to human bone and commanded by the brain- promises effortless, natural motion." "It can't come soon enough for the newest group of prosthetics wearers: U.S. Soldiers."

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Autism Speaks and Kellogg Company team up to bring autism awareness to Rice Krispies cereal boxes

"Autism Speaks, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness of autism and raising money to fund autism research, is now partnering with the Kellogg Company to bring its message of autism awareness to the side panels of more than 5 million Rice Krispies cereal boxes." "These special Autism Speaks cereal boxes will appear in stores throughout the summer."

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