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Adolescent Medicine News

Opioid Prescribing in Teens Still High, but Tide May Be Turning Efforts to reduce opioid prescribing do not appear to have affected prescribing among adolescents as much as desired.
Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2018
How Should the Next Supreme Court Justice Handle Roe v Wade? Nominee Brett Kavanaugh could tip the balance against abortion rights if he is confirmed.
Medscape Reader Polls, July 11, 2018

Impact of Toxic Stress on Migrant Children Devastating, Enduring
Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2018
Verapamil May Improve Beta-Cell Function in Type 1 Diabetes
Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2018
Gun Injuries Twice as Common for City Kids
Reuters Health Information, July 5, 2018
US Teens May Smoke Hookah Because 'Everyone Else Is Doing It'
Reuters Health Information, July 5, 2018

Adolescent Medicine Perspective

Paying the Piper: Marijuana Now, Psychosis Later Teens who used cannabis were followed for symptoms of psychosis. The findings are concerning.
Medscape Internal Medicine, July 13, 2018
For Childhood Anxiety, Consider First-Line CBT Dr Peter Yellowlees discusses the results of a systematic review comparing CBT versus pharmacotherapy.
Medscape Psychiatry, July 10, 2018

Pay Attention to Self-harm: It Is a Precursor to Suicide
Medscape Pediatrics, July 5, 2018
Toxic Stress Is Real: Strategies to Help Children
Medscape Pediatrics, July 2, 2018
HPV Vaccine's 'Extraordinary Benefits' Seen in Cochrane Review
Medscape Oncology, June 7, 2018
Wernicke Encephalopathy in a 15-Year-Old Girl: A Case
Medscape Neurology, June 5, 2018

Adolescent Medicine Journal Articles

Comprehensive Interventions for Reducing Cannabis Use
Current Opinion in Psychiatry, July 13, 2018
Marijuana Regulatory Frameworks: A Public Health Analysis
American Journal of Public Health, July 11, 2018
Articular Cartilage Defects in the Glenohumeral Joint
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, July 10, 2018
Impact of a School Fitness Program on Obesity and Health
Preventing Chronic Disease, July 2, 2018
An Algorithmic Approach to Infantile Digital Fibromatosis
ePlasty, Open Access Journal of Plastic Surgery, June 28, 2018

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