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Published: March 27, 2009 at 2:39 PM GOTHENBURG, Sweden, March 27 (UPI) -- Psychiatric disorders are common in adults who have had the eating disorder anorexia, researchers in Sweden said. A total of 51 teenagers with anorexia nervosa were studied, together with an equally large control group of healthy persons beginning in 1985. The groups have been investigated and compared several times over the study period. "This study is unique in an international perspective," Elisabet Wentz of the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg in Sweden said in a statement. "It is the only study in the world that reflects the natural course of anorexia nervosa in the population." Wentz said 18 years after the beginning of the study, three... [read full story]
Muggers punched a two-year-old girl in the head as they demanded money from her mother, Scotland Yard said today. The 23-year-old victim was shopping with her daughter in Wembley, north-west London, when two young women tried...
