Adolescent Medicine
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Adjunctive VNS therapy helps children with drug-resistant epilepsy
Key clinical point: Adjunctive vagus nerve stimulation therapy in children with drug-resistant epilepsy reduces seizures. Major finding: At 12...
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USPSTF releases updated recommendations for STI counseling, screening
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Complications rise for young people who miss glycemic goals
Key clinical point: About three-fourths of children and young people with type 1 diabetes did not meet their hemoglobin A1c goals. Major finding:...
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AHA/ACC: No to universal ECG screen in healthy young people
Key clinical point: Don’t use 12-lead ECG to screen healthy young people for cardiovascular abnormalities. Major finding: Insufficient information...
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Daily cannabis use in teens linked to lower educational attainment, increased suicide risk
Key clinical point: Prevention or delay of cannabis use in adolescence is likely to have broad health and social benefits. Major finding: Young...
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NHLBI expert panel issues guideline on sickle cell disease
Major finding: The two most widely available disease-modifying therapies for SCD, hydroxyurea and long-term transfusions, are underused, in large...
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Statins slowed atherosclerosis in children with familial hypercholesterolemia
Key clinical point: Statins seem to normalize heart disease risk in children with familial hypercholesterolemia.Major Finding: Progression of...
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Rare enterovirus outbreaks sending children to hospitals
Key clinical point: Consider enterovirus D68 in the differential diagnosis of unexplained severe respiratory illness.Major finding: Enterovirus...