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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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Primary care project successful in promoting parent-child interactions
Major Finding: A Video Interaction Project aimed at enhancing parent-child interactions during routine pediatric visits was associated with...
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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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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,...
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Driving after marijuana use common among older teens
Major finding: Thirty-one percent of marijuana users drove after using the drug.Data source: A survey study of 315 participants at two large...
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DSM-5 criteria 'at odds' with early autism diagnosis
Major finding: Of 237 children who had been diagnosed with ASD by age 3 based on DSM-IV criteria over a 7-year period, only 35% met the criteria...
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Despite laws, almost half of teens text while driving
Major finding: Approximately 45% of teens reported texting while driving at least once in the past 30 days, according to one analysis of national...
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Study supports laws requiring cyclists to wear helmets
Major finding: States with mandatory bicycle helmet laws had only 84% of the deaths per population that states without helmet laws had, after...
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Repeated Anesthesia Before Age 2 Linked to Learning Disabilities
Major Finding: Repeated exposure to anesthesia before age 2 was a significant, independent risk factor for later development of learning...