A Stockholm treatment centre for eating disorders on Thursday said talent scouts from modelling agencies had approached their patients outside the clinic, hoping to recruit them. "They were outside the building and waited for the girls to go out for a walk," the director of the public institution, Anna-Maria af Sandeberg, told Swedish news agency TT, without naming the agencies. The unscrupulous head hunters were familiar with the patients' every day routine and would stop at nothing, she added.

A Dutch court on Friday halted the extradition of a Dutch-Pakistani Al-Qaeda suspect to the United States, saying he would not be handed over until Washington guaranteed the same treatment for his post-traumatic stress disorder as in the Netherlands. The Hague judge "prohibits the State to extradite Sabir Khan as long as the United States cannot guarantee," that Khan, 26, gets a very specific type of treatment for his disorder, commonly referred to as PTSD, said a court document sent to AFP.

A 10-day certificate training course on “Eidetic Psychotherapy and Eidetic Model of Growth” concluded at the Government College University (GCU).

Nearly one in five American teenage boys is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, marking a dramatic rise in the past decade, the New York Times reported on Monday. The condition, for which potent stimulant drugs like Adderal or Ritalin are often prescribed, has been previously estimated to affect three to seven percent of children. The newspaper compiled the data from raw figures provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which took a phone survey of 76,000 parents from 2011 to 2012.