Adolescent Medicine
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Estrogen replacement eases weight-gain anxiety in girls with anorexia
Major finding: After 18 months of estrogen replacement therapy, 20 anorexic teenage girls, compared with 17 on placebo, had a significant decrease...
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Doppler ultrasound detected synovitis in clinically inactive JIA
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STD screening strategies: Urine not enough in MSM
Major finding: Screening practices in young men who have sex with men need to account for a significant number of nongenital chlamydia and...
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Feds back down on emergency contraception
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More than half of eligible girls don't get first HPV vaccine
Major finding: A comparison of the number of clinic visits with each girl’s HPV immunization status found a median of two to three missed...
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Concussion recovery takes longer if children have had one before
Major finding: The median duration of concussion symptoms was 12 days in children and teens who hadn’t been concussed before, 24 days in those who...
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Depression screening tools for teens not widely used
Major Finding: Eighty percent of pediatric and family medicine clinicians (physicians and nurse practitioners) routinely use clinical observation/...
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Teen birth rate down almost 50% since 1991
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Teen smartphone addiction correlates with psychopathology
Major finding: Higher scores for addiction to smartphone or Internet use correlated positively with higher scores for psychopathology and...
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Parents -not just teens-are distracted while driving
Major finding: Almost 90% of parents who were surveyed engaged in at least one technology-related distraction while driving their child in the...
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Education not enough: Student attitudes on concussion are poor
Major finding: Many of the 120 high school football players who participated in a survey-based study (70%) were knowledgeable about concussions,...