Pediatrics

• In the Journals

• More sleep led to lower BMI in adolescents

• April 19, 2013
• Adolescents aged 14 to 18 years who get more sleep are more likely to have nonuniform changes in BMI distribution, new research suggests.
  “Increasing...More »

• In the Journals

• Frequent eating linked to lower body weight in children, adolescents

• April 17, 2013
• Frequent eating is associated with lower body weight status in children and adolescents, new research suggests.
  “Interestingly the inverse...More »

• In the Journals

• Penatmidine prevented pneumocystosis among pediatric HSCT patients

• April 16, 2013
• Intravenous pentamidine was found to be safe and effective for the prevention of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell...More »

• In the Journals

• Penatmidine prevented pneumocystosis among pediatric HSCT patients

• Infectious Disease News, May 2013
• Intravenous pentamidine was found to be safe and effective for the prevention of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell...More »

• In the Journals

• Repeat births among teens still prevalent despite decline

• April 12, 2013
• Despite the decline of repeat teenage births in recent years, nearly 20% of all teenage births are a repeat birth, according to study results published in...More »

• In the Journals

• Sexual activity among youngest adolescents rare, but activity grows with age

• April 12, 2013
• Very few early adolescents have had sex, but adolescence is a time of rapid change, and sexual activity is more common among older teens, according to...More »

• Database study identifies common causes, types of fractures in children

• April 9, 2013
• Norwegian researchers analyzed fracture type incidence and fracture per exposure in sports and other activities and concluded distal radius fractures were...More »

• CME

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health

• Detecting and addressing mental health issues in children and adolescents remains a significant challenge for the busy office clinician. Rarely trained to effectively treat depression and anxiety in…...More »
• Keck School of Medicine of USC and Pediatric Annals

• In the Journals

• Sexual abuse, neglect predicted teen pregnancy

• April 1, 2013
• Teenage girls who were sexually abused or neglected were more than twice as likely to experience teen childbirth compared with those who were not...More »

• Feature

• DSM-5 and Proposed Changes to the Diagnosis of Autism

• Pediatric Annals, April 2013, Volume 42 Issue 4
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