Adolescent Medicine News

The overwhelming majority of rheumatology practices have no formal policy for transitioning pediatric patients to adult care, according to a presenter at the 2023 AWIR annual conference.

Although mean daily out-of-pocket costs for buprenorphine — a medication for opioid use disorder — fell from 2015 to 2020 in the United States, cost remains a barrier for many people, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Two different trials showed that adults with obesity lost an average of 26% of their body weight with either intensive lifestyle intervention followed by 72 weeks of Mounjaro or 88 weeks of continuous Mounjaro use.

Learning disorders are common among children in the United States, affecting approximately nine out of every 100, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Young adults who used prescription stimulants as children were not more likely than their peers to use illicit drugs later on, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Medical spending is higher for children and young adults who do not have a healthy body mass index, including those who are underweight, according to study findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Youth with autism are three times as likely to have a co-occurring diagnosis of gender dysphoria than peers who do not have autism, according to findings from a study of more than 900,000 adolescents published in Pediatrics.

Most parents showed a willingness for their child to have mental health screening assessments done in a primary care setting and were generally comfortable with screening topics, a recent study found.

The field of pediatric rheumatology is at a crossroads.

E-cigarette sales in the United States surged by nearly 47% from 2020 to 2022 to more than 22 million units per month, according to study findings published Thursday in MMWR.