PED || Adolescent Medicine

FDA reclassifies tanning beds; warns against use by teens

Posted on: 29/05/2014 - 20:45

The Food and Drug Administration is requiring all tanning beds to carry a "black box" warning that the devices should not be used by children under age 18 years. The labeling doesn’t...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Parents, teens misunderstand parameters of confidential interviews

Posted on: 09/05/2014 - 17:25

PHILADELPHIA – Despite an overall agreement on its merit, both parents and their adolescent daughters are leery of the confidential interview in the gynecologic setting, in part because each cohort...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

CDC: Young teens’ birth rates drop 67%

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 22:50

Despite a 67% drop in the birth rate among teens aged 15-17 years over the past 2 decades, there is still plenty of room for improvement, according to a report issued April 8 by the Centers for...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Polyarteritis nodosa gene discovery raises new possibilities for field

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 19:00

Autosomal recessive mutations in the gene CECR1 cause an inflammatory vasculopathy with a highly varied clinical presentation that often meets the criteria for polyarteritis nodosa and can occur with...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Foods can still trigger eosinophilic esophagitis after allergy outgrown

Posted on: 03/03/2014 - 15:45

SAN DIEGO – Seventeen of 425 children who had eosinophilic esophagitis caused by a specific food developed the condition after outgrowing the allergy to that food, a retrospective study...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Energy drinks amp up heart contractility

Posted on: 03/12/2013 - 18:25

CHICAGO – Consumption of an energy drink containing caffeine and taurine slightly, but significantly, altered left ventricular contractility in healthy volunteers, while consuming the same amount of...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Analysis: No such thing as ‘benign’ obesity

Posted on: 02/12/2013 - 22:00

"Metabolically healthy" overweight and obese patients may carry the same short-term risk as normal-weight patients for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events, but their weight puts...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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FDA reclassifies tanning beds; warns against use by teens

Parents, teens misunderstand parameters of confidential interviews

CDC: Young teens’ birth rates drop 67%

Polyarteritis nodosa gene discovery raises new possibilities for field

Foods can still trigger eosinophilic esophagitis after allergy outgrown

Energy drinks amp up heart contractility

Analysis: No such thing as ‘benign’ obesity

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