Sleep Flees with Kids’ Mental Health Issues

Medpage Today -- Insomnia significantly affects 29% of children seen by child psychiatrists, according to a national survey. Roughly one-quarter of these patients with insomnia as a “major problem symptom” receive sleep medications, although none are FDA approved for pediatric use, found Judith A. Owens, MD, of Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University in Providence, R.I., and colleagues.