Adolescent Medicine

• Meeting News Coverage

• Most high school football players would continue to play despite acknowledged concussion symptoms

• May 6, 2013
• Surveys of high school football players, many of whom were educated about concussion dangers, revealed that they would not report their own concussion...More »

• Swift international response investigation underway for H7N9 outbreak

• April 24, 2013
• Kathy Neuzil, MD, MPH, highlights the new influenza strain, A H7N9, adding that as a global influenza community "we are better prepared for this then we ......More »

• In the Journals

• ‘Cinnamon challenge’ spurs increased calls to poison centers, ED visits

• April 22, 2013
• Clinicians are being urged to discuss the potential harm of the “cinnamon challenge” with adolescents and teens.
  The cinnamon challenge, the...More »

• Children with hypermobile shoulders, knees, ankles at risk for musculoskeletal pain

• February 28, 2013
• Children were twice as likely to develop musculoskeletal pain in certain joints when those joints were hypermobile, according to study results in...More »

• In the Journals

• Multisymptoms increased risk for extended duration of concussive symptoms in prep athletes

• January 28, 2013
• High school athletes who presented with four or more symptoms after sustaining concussion had a greater risk for those symptoms lasting for at least 7...More »

• Thomas P Sculco MD Investigator Insights at CCJR Winter Meeting

• December 19, 2012
• Thomas P. Sculco, MD, speaks with Orthopedics Today about his presentation at CCJR Winter Meeting titled, "New Technologies: Can We Afford Them?"...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• Adolescent athletes who lacked sleep more likely to be injured

• October 25, 2012
• Athletes in middle and high school who slept 8 hours or more per night were almost 70% less likely to be injured than athletes who got less sleep,...More »

• In the Journals

• AAP: Home trampolines not worth the risk

• Infectious Diseases in Children, November 2012
• With 98,000 injuries treated in EDs across the country in 2009, an updated policy statement from the AAP is warning parents about the dangers of owning...More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• Self-injury rates in elementary school children comparable to those in adolescents

• Infectious Diseases in Children, July 2012
• Children in grade school engaged in nonsuicidal self-injury at a rate that is similar to early adolescents, according to national study results. The...More »

• Health Policy

• CDC: Teenage risky behaviors decreased in past two decades

• June 7, 2012
• The percentage of high school students engaging in risky health behaviors decreased significantly from 1991 to 2011, according to the CDC.
  The decline in...More »

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