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Stock inhalers at school effectively meet students’ rescue medication needs
DALLAS – Nearly all public schools in a single county participated in the program, which enabled most students to return class after using the...
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Vitamin D levels linked to depression in teens
BALTIMORE – Findings were not affected by differences in the season, latitude, income level, or use of vitamin D...
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Flu vaccine visits reveal missed opportunities for HPV vaccination
BALTIMORE – Adolescents were significantly more likely to miss getting the HPV vaccine than the Tdap or MenACWY...
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Pediatrician knowledge of tampon safety is low
BALTIMORE – Only about one-third of pediatricians discuss proper tampon safety with their adolescent female patients...
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Universal adolescent anxiety screening is feasible in primary care
BALTIMORE – With no AAP guidelines on anxiety screening for adolescents, an academic pediatric primary care practice...
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No benefit to infants from e-books over board books
BALTIMORE – Parents given e-books were just as likely to read to their children 5 days a week as parents given board...
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Parents’ smartphone addiction linked to children’s overuse of the devices
BALTIMORE – Parents who scored high on a smartphone addiction scale had greater difficulty taking their smartphones...
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Zika knowledge, preparedness low among U.S. pediatricians
BALTIMORE – Only about one in six pediatricians felt prepared to manage infants prenatally exposed to Zika or to...
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Neurodevelopmental concerns may emerge later in Zika-exposed infants
BALTIMORE – Some Zika-exposed children showed poorer mobility and social cognitive scores as they approached 18 months even though their fetal...
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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder may involve brain abnormalities
The study results follow similar findings showing that patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have smaller hippocampus and...
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Bariatric surgery viable for teens with cognitive disabilities
Bariatric surgery may offer a worthwhile treatment option with adequate consent procedures in place.
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AAP, AHA push for policies limiting children’s sugary beverage consumption
The new policy statement focuses on local, state, and federal policies that can discourage sugary beverage intake in addition to counseling...
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Adolescent psychiatric ED visits more than doubled in 4 years
Substantial increases particularly were seen among African American and Latino youth.
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Policy statement on drowning highlights high-risk groups
The new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics advises pediatricians to assess all children for drowning risk.
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Antenatal steroids for preterm birth is cost effective
Direct medical costs were nearly $700 lower for infants whose mothers received betamethasone, excluding postdischarge or caregivers’ costs.