Adolescent Medicine News

• Fewer Teens Giving Birth, but Cases Are More Complex Rates of obesity, mental health conditions, diabetes, and delivery complications have increased among teens giving birth.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Adolescents With Food Allergies Share Common Concerns Adolescents with food allergies have allergy-related beliefs and concerns that involve five themes that may influence how they manage their condition, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Exploding E-Cigarettes Cause Traumatic Injuries in Teens Burns and cuts caused by e-cigarette explosions have required hospitalization and surgery for teenage vapers, warn investigators.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• APA 2022 Anxiety in America: COVID 'Takes a Backseat' to Global Events Recent events, including the war in Ukraine, racially motivated mass shootings, or the effects of climate change, are weighing more heavily on Americans' minds this year than the pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• AYA Leukemia Survivors: 'Cure Is Not Enough' Adolescent and young adult (AYA) survivors of leukemia have a life span that is about 10% lower than that of their peers in the general population.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• US CDC Says COVID Vaccine-Related Myocarditis Much Lower for Children Than Teens The CDC on Thursday said rates of reported heart inflammation linked to the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have been much lower in 5- to 11-year-old boys than in adolescents and young men, and were only slightly elevated above normal.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• Who Is Most Concerned With Self-presentation on Social Media? How self-presentation on social media is influenced by sociodemographic variables, lifestyle, and personality.
  First Look, May 19, 2022
• Global Smoking Rates Fall for First Time, but Rise for Kids, Africa: Report Smoking rates have declined globally for the first time on record, according to a new report on tobacco use from a public health campaign group and US academics.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• Youth Mental Health Hospitalization Rates Rose in 2020 Girls accounted for a greater proportion of hospitalizations than boys, and girls were more than twice as likely to be prescribed mood and anxiety medication than boys.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• ATS 2022 Poorest Children at Higher Risk for PICU Admissions, Death Living in neighborhoods with low socioeconomic status was predictive of pediatric critical care use and in-hospital mortality.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• CARRA 2022 Pfizer COVID Vax Performs Well in Youth With Rheumatic Diseases Nearly all participants in the study showed complete seroconversion, in contrast to similar studies in adults.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• HPV Strains Covered by the Vaccine Have Declined Greatly in US The study is good news for the HPV vaccination program in the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Alabama Transgender Youth Can Use Medicine During Transition: Judge Transgender minors in Alabama for now can use medicine to transition, a federal judge said late on Friday in an order that blocked part of a state ban on gender-affirming treatments.
  Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2022
• Tuberculosis: The Disease That Changed World History Scientific discoveries have greatly improved the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of TB. Yet efforts to eradicate the disease appear to have taken a step backward.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• US Drug Overdose Deaths Top 100,000 for the First Time The CDC said there were an estimated 107,622 drug overdose deaths in 2021, a 15% increase over the previous record of 93,655 set in 2020.
  WebMD Health News, May 13, 2022
• AACE 2022 First Fatty Liver Guidelines for Endocrinology, Primary Care Endocrinologists and primary care docs 'need to be the ones who are diagnosing and managing [non-alcoholic fatty liver disease] because there just aren't enough liver specialists to do that,' says author.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• Risk of Dying From New Cancer Higher in Young Cancer Survivors Adolescent and young adult cancer survivors are at an increased risk of developing and dying from a second primary cancer, highlighting the critical role of surveillance and survivorship care.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Early-Onset Colon Cancer Projected to Double by 2030 “We’re seeing a lot of younger people with this disease. It’s rather alarming,” says the author of a review that predicts further increases.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• CDC: Gun Homicides Increased 35% in 2020 The report highlighted troubling racial, ethnic, and class disparities. Black people saw the largest increase in firearm homicides, at 39%.
  WebMD Health News, May 11, 2022
• In Canada, Poor Children With Type 1 Diabetes Less Likely to Receive an Insulin Pump Canadian children with type 1 diabetes who are poor are less likely to receive an insulin pump, especially where the cost is only partially funded, a new study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, May 09, 2022