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Psychiatric Comorbidity Tied to Early Mortality in Anorexia
About half of the sample with anorexia (47%) had a psychiatric comorbidity, which is associated with a 7.7% mortality risk at 10 years.
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What Toxic Stress Can Do to Health
Stress from adverse childhood experiences, which can have endocrine and other impacts, may be treated with a multidisciplinary team.
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Help! More Clinicians Are Needed to Manage Care for Children With Autism. How About You?
PCP detection and care for children with ASD is complex, so pediatricians need to learn the skills.
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Sharp Rise in US Pediatric ADHD Diagnoses
The prevalence estimates can be used by clinicians, policymakers, and others “to plan for the needs of children with ADHD, such as by ensuring...
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Early-Life Exposure to Pollution Linked to Psychosis, Anxiety, Depression
Both air and sound pollution were detrimental to mental health of adolescents and young adults.
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Teen Cannabis Use Tied to Dramatic Increased Risk for Psychosis
Although there was a strong association between cannabis use and psychosis in teens, no such association was found in young adulthood.
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FDA Approves Nonstimulant Liquid Onyda XR for ADHD
The once-daily extended-release oral suspension, with nighttime dosing, can be used alone or as an adjunctive therapy to FDA-approved stimulant...
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Decision-Making Help for Kids With Disabilities Entering Adulthood
Advice from the AAP describes a continuum of choices from autonomy to full guardianship. Pediatricians can help find the least restrictive option...
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PCPs May Have a New Tool to Help Identify Autism in Young Children
The tool helps clinicians by incorporating their diagnosis and self-reported level of certainty with eye-tracking biomarkers.
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High-Potency Cannabis Tied to Impaired Brain Development, Psychosis, Cannabis-Use Disorder
“Clearly new treatment strategies are needed to address the mounting challenge of cannabis-use disorder risk in teens and young adults.”