Pediatrics
News
Providers need protocols in place to better treat transgender youth
Cultural humility training and gender protocols should be adopted for all centers handling transgender youth.
News
Q&A: Identifying gaps in the treatment of endometriosis
Stacey A. Missmer, Sc.D., the scientific director of the Boston Center for Endometriosis, is looking to advance understanding of the condition...
News
Pediatric BMI increases linked to rises in blood pressure, hypertension risk
Children’s and adolescents’ risk of blood pressure increases and hypertension rose as their body mass index increased, even over a short period of...
News
Childhood metabolic syndrome severity declined relative to HDL, triglyceride changes
The severity of childhood metabolic syndrome declined in a study of U.S. adolescents relative to increases in HDL levels and decreases in fasting...
News
Aripiprazole may suppress prolactin in boys who develop gynecomasta while on risperidon, other atypical antipsychotics
News
Antipsychotics may double to triple diabetes risk in youth
Key clinical point: Antipsychotics, particularly olanzapine, greatly increased the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in young people. Major finding...
Guidelines
How new dietary guidelines affect health care providers
While the new dietary guidelines, released jointly by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department Agriculture, are geared...
News
Does poverty predetermine pediatric obesity?
Childhood obesity and poverty are increasingly linked, socioeconomic data indicate.
Conference Coverage
Subtly elevated maternal glucose linked to increased risk of tetralogy of Fallot
Nondiabetic women with second-trimester subclinical elevated blood glucose have a sharply increased risk of tetralogy of Fallot.
Conference Coverage
67% of teens have substantial cardiometabolic risk burden, blood donor survey shows
Key clinical point: Two-thirds of 16- to 19-year-olds have borderline or frank hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and/or high blood glucose....
Conference Coverage
WDC: Disease-modifying immunotherapy ‘the future of diabetes care’
Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, people at risk for type 1 diabetes will be screened for antibodies against beta cells, and, if two or more...