Mental Health

Parental prescription opioid use appeared associated with greater risk for suicide attempt among offspring, according to study results published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A recent study found that preterm and early birth were strong risk factors for the development of chronic kidney disease from childhood to mid-adulthood, and those born prematurely should receive long term follow-up to preserve renal function over their lifetime.

Low socioeconomic status and the experience of traumatic stressful events seemed to be linked with brain structure and function parameters as well as behavior, according to study findings published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Research published in JAMA Pediatrics suggests that children exposed to adverse childhood events, or ACEs, who participated in team sports as adolescents may be less likely to have diagnosed depression, anxiety or current depressive symptoms as adults.

Teens who were perinatally infected with HIV and received treatment have similar cognitive outcomes compared with their HIV-negative peers, according to research published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. However, researchers observed that HIV-positive adolescents had decreased executive functioning over time, suggestive of earlier brain damage.

UCB announced that its benzodiazepine-based nasal spray for patients with epilepsy was recently approved by the FDA.

My path toward the field of infectious diseases was a bit winding. My love for immunology began at a young age. I was inspired to become an immunologist by my father, a rheumatologist and immunologist, whose license plate happens to be “T cell.” From the beginning, he made learning about the immune system fun and this still rings true with me today. At age 15, I spent my summer in the Cleveland Clinic microbiology lab with Dr. Belinda Yen-Lieberman. She taught me about virology, and I became fascinated with HIV. I always knew I wanted to be a rheumatologist but discovered that the intersection of infectious disease and rheumatology was the niche for me. With an immense amount of support from Carlos Isada, my ID program director, and Abby Abelson, my rheumatology program director, as well as from my father, I was fortunate to serve as the beta test subject of a 3-year combined fellowship in rheumatology and infectious disease, from which I graduated in 2018. Dr. Isada is the type of physician who is hard to come by these days — being a doctor is not “just a job” for him, but a life passion, and learning from him made it impossible to do anything but love the field of infectious diseases. Today I am lucky to practice medicine at the intersection of my two passions — seeing patients with infectious complications of immunosuppression, rheumatic manifestations of infections and HIV, and focusing on infection prevention and immunization. I am also lucky to get to work with my dad every day (and my sister, who also works in my department). I learn something new and have fun every day.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a 2-year open-label extension study presented at the APA annual meeting, long-term treatment with Latuda was generally well-tolerated, and was associated with high rates of study completion, among children and teenagers with bipolar disorder.

Female youth aged 10 to 19 years had a significant and disproportionate increase in suicides between 1975 and 2005 compared with males in the same age group, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Researchers said that the findings show that the historically large gap between male and female youth suicides is narrowing.

Exposure to perinatal maternal depressive symptoms was linked to brain development in the offspring examined at age 10 years, according to data published in American Journal of Psychiatry.