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Bipolar diagnosis in children soars in decade

The number of American children diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a mental illness, jumped 40-fold from 1994 to 2003, affecting 1 in 100 kids, according to a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Of the 800,000 people ages 19 and younger with the diagnosis in 2003, 91 percent received at least one drug and two-thirds got ...

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