A Round-up of Recent Medical Headlines

" It's estimated nearly three million children in the US are being treated for ADHD. Ten teens taking those medications are no more likely to have heart problems. In children who never been exposed to these drugs according to a new study. Researchers track the health record to 241000. Patients taking this net and compared them to more than 950000. Who were not. Researchers found no significant difference between the two groups in the number of sudden deaths or cases of irregular heartbeat. There were also no cases of heart attacks or strokes among the children taking these drugs. A thorough skin exam is something we should all have once a year. While most suspicious skin lesions identified by doctors other than dermatologists are -- Many of these patients are later found to have other skin cancers. A new study found only 22%. Of lesions cent per dermatologist or pearl. Turned out to be positive for cancer however while examining these patients. Dermatologist identified other cancerous lesions that the -- in fact. Nearly half of all identified skin cancers were not the referral -- and almost 10% of those. Where melanoma. Hepatitis C is a viral infection that causes inflammation of the liver and can lead to liver failure. The CDC estimates there are 3.2 million cases in the US and there's no vaccine. But the FDA has approved a new drug treatment for hepatitis C for the first time in twenty years the palace works by blocking an enzyme that helps the virus and reviews. When taken in combination with two other drugs more patients were found to have no virus detected in their blood. Month after stopping treatment."