Adolescent Medicine
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Treating Insomnia Boosts Treatment for Child and Teen Depression
Major Finding: Patients whose insomnia improved within the first 2 weeks of treatment had significantly lower depression severity scores on the...
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CDC Advisory Committee Recommends HPV Vaccine for Boys
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One in Six Newly Diagnosed Pediatric SLE Patients Have Low BMD
Major Finding: At the time of SLE diagnosis, 15% of pediatric patients were found to have low BMD.Data Source: An 80-patient, single-center,...
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Two Outpatient Interventions Help Beat Eating Disorders
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Social Phobia in Youth: More Than Just Shyness
Major Finding: Only 12.4% of 4,749 youth who described themselves as shy, and 10.6% whose parents considered them shy, also met the DSM-IV...
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Pediatric, Adolescent TBI Incidence Up by 62%
Major Finding: Emergency department visits for TBIs related to sports and recreation among children aged 19 years and younger increased from 153,...
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Stimulant Use for ADHD Continues to Rise
Major Finding: Adolescents accounted for the greatest increase in use of stimulants for ADHD from 2.3% in 1996, to 5.0% in 2008.Data Source:...
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MULTIMEDIA: Teen Driving Safety: A Decade of Declining Motor Vehicle Fatalities
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Innovative Programs Work to Improve Teen Driving
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LGA at Birth Linked to Excess Mortality in Young Adulthood
Major Finding: Low gestational age at birth correlated robustly and in a linear fashion with excess mortality at age 18-36 years, independently of...
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HPV Vaccine Safe, Effective in Girls with JIA
Major Finding: Mean geometric mean antibodies to two strains of human papilloma virus reached protective levels (5,119 LU/mL for HPV 16 and 2,764...