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- A possible link between early probiotic intervention and the risk of neuropsychiatric disorders later in childhood: a randomized trial (2015)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2015
Pärtty A, Kalliomäki M, Wacklin P, Salminen S, Isolauri E
Seventy-five infants originally randomized to Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG or placebo during their first six months were followed for 13 years. This was an infancy-intervention follow-up, not…
- A potential natural treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: evidence from a national study (2004)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2004
Kuo FE, Taylor AF
Analysis of 452 usable parent surveys from a national Internet-based nonprobability sample found greener outdoor settings associated with greater parent-rated symptom reduction than built outdoor or…
- A Progress Report on Implementation of the Recommendations of the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice
Government Record · 2011
Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice
Pennsylvania's 2011 report on Kids for Cash reforms. It says the state Supreme Court ordered expungement of every juvenile charge in about 4,000 cases handled by…
- AACAP Statement on Psychiatric Medications and Children’s Mental Health (2025)
Document · 2025
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
AACAP rejected broad claims that SSRIs cause violence and supported individualized, monitored prescribing. This is the medical society’s own position, not an independent systematic review.
- AAP reaffirms gender-affirming care policy, authorizes systematic review of evidence (2023)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2023
AAP News (American Academy of Pediatrics)
In August 2023 the AAP simultaneously reaffirmed its 2018 gender-affirming-care policy and authorized a systematic evidence review – i.e., it restated its position before, not after,…
- AAP: ‘Stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims’ (2025)
News Report · 2025
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP News)
AAP's official statement responding to the CDC page change, calling on the administration to stop amplifying what it describes as false claims about vaccines and autism.
- AAP: Changes to hepatitis B recommendations ‘irresponsible and dangerous’ (2025)
News Report · 2025
AAP News (American Academy of Pediatrics)
AAP News report of the Dec 5, 2025 ACIP vote; the AAP publicly called the change irresponsible and continued to recommend the 24-hour birth dose plus…
- AbbVie 2021 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Earnings Exhibit (2022)
Corporate Filing · 2022
AbbVie Inc.
AbbVie’s earnings exhibit reports 2021 Lupron revenue of $604 million in the United States and $179 million internationally, totaling $783 million. This is product-wide revenue and…
- Abilify (aripiprazole) Prescribing Information (2016)
Government Record · 2016
FDA label via DailyMed
The label establishes pediatric indications for schizophrenia at ages 13–17, bipolar mania at ages 10–17, autism-associated irritability at ages 6–17, and Tourette’s disorder, with pediatric Tourette’s…
- About Hepatitis B (Hepatitis B Basics) (2025)
Government Record · 2025
CDC, Division of Viral Hepatitis
Current CDC statement of transmission routes; CDC estimates ~640,000 adults in the U.S. have chronic hepatitis B and about 1 in 2 infected people do not…
- Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc., 2023 Form 10-K
Corporate Filing · 2024
Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc.
Acadia Healthcare's annual SEC filing. It says the company paid $400 million on January 19, 2024 to settle three New Mexico foster care cases, without admitting…
- Accelerating Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Federal Research (CDC Technology Transfer Plan, FY2011 accomplishments) (2012)
Government Record · 2012
CDC (document); hosted by NIST
CDC does hold patents and license them: the plan reports 87 patents filed and 60 issued in FY2011, and $1,127,457 in royalties collected by CDC's Technology…
- ACIP Recommends COVID-19 Vaccination Based on Individual Decision-Making (2025)
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HHS announced that the reconstituted ACIP unanimously voted to shift COVID-19 vaccination for everyone six months and older to individual decision-making rather than a routine recommendation.
- ACIP Recommends Individual-Based Decision-Making for Hepatitis B Vaccine for Infants Born to Women Who Test Negative for the Virus (2025)
Government Record · 2025
HHS Office of the Secretary
HHS announcement of the ACIP vote (8-3 on Dec 5, 2025); also records the Sept 19, 2025 ACIP vote recommending hepatitis B testing for all pregnant…
- ACLU v. Clapper, No. 14-42-cv
Court Filing · 2015
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
The Second Circuit held the bulk telephone-metadata program exceeded Section 215. It did not issue an injunction at that stage.
- Adderall XR (mixed salts of a single-entity amphetamine product) Prescribing Information (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Current FDA label via DailyMed
The current Adderall XR label carries the stimulant boxed warning. Its growth section says to monitor children and describes approximately 2 cm less height growth and…
- ADHD Diagnosis and Drug Use Estimates in France: A Case for Using Health Care Insurance Data (2021)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2021
Ponnou S, Théry B, Viellard M, et al.
Using French health-insurance and medication-safety data, the authors estimated ADHD identification around 0.3% among children ages 6–11. The abstract contrasts that estimate with an earlier 3.5%–5.6%…
- Adoption and Legal Guardianship Incentive Awards History
Government Record · 2026
Administration for Children and Families
The federal government's state-by-state table of adoption and guardianship incentive money paid from fiscal 1998 through fiscal 2024.
- Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, Public Law 105-89
Government Record · 1997
U.S. Congress
The 1997 law that created federal adoption incentive payments ($4,000 for each foster child adoption above a state's baseline, plus $2,000 for special-needs adoptions) and the…
- Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, Public Law 96-272
Government Record · 1980
U.S. Congress
The 1980 law that built the modern federal foster care funding system (Title IV-E). It required states to make "reasonable efforts" to prevent a child's removal…
- Adverse Drug Events: Substantial Problem but Magnitude Uncertain (2000)
Government Record · 2000
U.S. General Accounting Office; Janet Heinrich
GAO testified that Lazarou’s fatal estimate rested on too few observed deaths for a stable national projection and predominantly on much older studies. It concluded that…
- Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality (2011)
Document · 2011
Institute of Medicine, Committee to Review Adverse Effects of Vaccines (Clayton EW, Ford EB, Rusch E, eds.)
The IOM reviewed 158 vaccine-adverse-event pairs. It found the evidence 'convincingly supports' 14 causal relationships — including MMR vaccine and febrile seizures (roughly 1 additional febrile…
- Adverse Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, House Report 117-486
Government Record · 2022
U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
The report reproduces the September 29, 2021 National School Boards Association letter suggesting possible domestic-terrorism or hate-crime classification for malice, violence, and threats.
- African American Children in Foster Care: Additional HHS Assistance Needed to Help States Reduce the Proportion in Care, GAO-07-816
Government Record · 2007
Government Accountability Office
GAO found African American children were under 15% of the U.S. child population but 34% of the children remaining in foster care at the end of…