Adolescent Medicine
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Machine learning identifies childhood characteristics that predict bipolar disorder
With further development, the model could be used to identify at-risk children via electronic medical records, enabling earlier monitoring and...
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Myocarditis after COVID vax rare and mild in teens
Myocarditis in adolescents after Pfizer mRNA vaccination is rare with a mild and benign course and a favorable long-term prognosis, new data...
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Few transgender teens discontinue hormones in young adulthood
Pioneering clinic’s research finds that 98% of transgender adolescents taking puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones were still taking the latter...
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Preexisting mental illness symptoms spiked during pandemic
Disease severity was higher among individuals with preexisting mental illness admitted to inpatient care in the wake of COVID-19.
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Chest reconstruction surgeries up nearly fourfold among adolescents
One of the largest studies to investigate gender-affirming chest reconstructions found a significant increase in surgeries among gender diverse...
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Teens with diagnosed and undiagnosed ADHD report similar quality of life
Those diagnosed with ADHD in childhood were more than twice as likely to report self-harm.
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It’s about location: PCOS symptoms differ depending where you live
Women with PCOS in California were more likely to have hyperandrogenemia than were those in Alabama, but age and BMI weren’t factors, nor was race...
Latest News
Dermatologists fear effects of Dobbs decision for patients on isotretinoin, methotrexate
The iPLEDGE work group has not yet issued any specific statements on the implications of the Dobbs decision on prescribing isotretinoin.
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Alopecia areata: Positive results reported for two investigational JAK inhibitors
“This is truly transformative therapy,” one of the investigators, Brett King, MD, PhD, said.
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COVID pandemic associated with anorexia in Canadian youth
“There was so much disruption and [so many] restrictions to young peoples’ daily routines ... That led to heightened anxiety and depression and...
News from the FDA/CDC
FDA approves dupilumab for treatment of prurigo nodularis
Approval was based on data from two randomized, controlled trials, PRIME and PRIME2, comparing dupilumab with placebo in 311 adults with...