Adolescent Medicine
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Pediatric type 2 diabetes guidelines stress metformin
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Alcohol counseling often missed in teen visits
Major Finding: Counseling on harmful behaviors was inconsistent as 21% of teens were advised to reduce/stop binge drinking while 36% were advised...
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Implementing Health Reform: CHIP funding extended
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Verbal decline in boys during adolescence linked to psychosis
Major Finding: Each increase of 1 standard deviation in verbal ability in the 10,717 study subjects was associated with an adjusted hazard ratio...
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Higher suicidality seen in autistic children
Major Finding: Suicide attempts or ideation were a problem in 43% of autistic children, compared with 14% of depressed nonautistic children and 0....
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CDC: Binge drinking in women, girls under-recognized
Major Finding: One in eight U.S.
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Marijuana most popular drug of abuse among teens
Major Finding: One in five high school seniors believe marijuana use is harmful. Data Source: Monitoring the Future, a survey of 45,449 U.S. teens...
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Physicians seek OTC access to Plan B for all ages
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Pediatric cardiologist: Routine ECGs unnecessary for kids on ADHD meds
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Attention Retraining Enhances CBT for Adolescent Anxiety
Major Finding: Adjunctive attention-retraining therapy enhanced the already significant improvements from CBT for anxiety disorder.
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Youth Account for Quarter of New HIV Infections
Major Finding: An estimated 12,200 new cases of HIV were reported in youth aged 13-24 years in 2010, which was 26% of the total estimated 45,700...