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Giving ADHD Drugs to Kids Has a Long-Term Side Effect That Might Change Their Minds About Taking It

Futurism

Years later, another group of scientists reviewed 18 childhood Ritalin studies and found, similarly to the MTA researchers, that the drug can indeed "result in reduction in height and weight" though their opinion was that the size of the effect is negligible when compared to the purported benefits of these drugs.

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Apollo 10½ review: A charming blast into the past

Digital Trends

Netflix's Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood is an exquisite new animated film from Dazed and Confused writer-director Richard Linklater.

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How the American Childhood Cancer Organization Used Crowdfunding to Raise Over $43,000!

Tech Soup

Last year we shared how the American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) used Teespring to exceed their fundraising goals with a few clicks of a button. We took childhood cancer statistics and had it spelled out in the shape of a gold ribbon. But they aren’t done: they continue to launch new successful campaigns.

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Little Otter raises $22M to scale its personalized pediatric mental health platform

TechCrunch

From there, the family receives a personalized report and gets matched with a personal care lead who will review the assessment answers together to discuss the family’s unique needs. Once a family signs up on the platform, they’re given a quick questionnaire that aims to understand their needs.

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From boring to brilliant: Using data for maximum impact

ASU Lodestar Center

For example, I recently wrote a grant that addressed childhood obesity. In my example, it has been well established that childhood obesity is a problem; there isn’t a need to belabor that point or include a bunch of data to support that. Are childhood obesity rates higher? effect on childhood obesity. Again, using my.

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New trailers: Without Remorse, Thunder Force, and a new teaser for The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

The Verge

My colleague Julia Alexander writes in her review that the finale “never lost sight of the story it wanted to tell, the show it wanted to be, and the finale does a mostly decent job of hitting those final notes.”. Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer as a couple of childhood best friends turned 40-something, crime-fighting superheroes?

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The Resilient Nonprofit: A Technology Roadmap for Navigating Uncertainty

NonProfit Hub

.” Instead, your focus needs to be on consolidation, adoption, activation, removing friction, and regular review. With this group implement a review cycle, biannually to make sure you aren’t over spending on tech bloat where people sign up for things to try it out and then forget.