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People With A.D.H.D. Are Likely to Die Significantly Earlier Than Their Peers, Study Finds

People With A.D.H.D. Are Likely to Die Significantly Earlier Than Their Peers, Study Finds

A study of more than 30,000 British adults diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D., found that, on average, they were dying earlier than their counterparts in the general population — around seven years earlier for men, and around nine for women. The study, which was published Thursday in The British Journal of Psychiatry, is believed to be the …

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RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Obscures America’s Unhealthy Past

RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Obscures America’s Unhealthy Past

“We will make Americans healthy again,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has declared. A political action committee that has promoted Mr. Kennedy, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for health and human services secretary, says his movement is “igniting a health revolution in America.” But the word “again” presumes a time in the country’s past when Americans were in better health. Was …

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