Pediatrics News

The Women’s Preventive Services Initiative, after reviewing more than 2,000 abstracts and 300 full-text articles, recommended that primary care physicians screen women and adolescent girls aged 13 years or older for anxiety.

Cannabis use appeared moderately associated with physical violence among young adults, according to results of a meta-analysis published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and measures to combat the spread of the virus have significantly affected the mental health of individuals throughout the United States and the world.

Many practices, if they did not have them already, set up telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic — one of several ways that clinicians have adapted to care for patients during ongoing social distancing measures.

Researchers have identified traits associated with increased risk for gun use among adolescents at high-risk for gun violence, according to results of a study published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

The FDA has granted marketing authorization for the first time for a video game that can improve the attention span in children with ADHD.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, warned that the indirect effect the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the health of women and children may outweigh the number of deaths from the disease itself.

Children with parents who have a sibling with ASD are at a higher risk for ASD compared with the general population, according to the results of a study published in Biological Psychiatry.

A free video game titled Shadow’s Edge helps players cope with the isolation, desolation and fear caused by stressors like COVID-19, the game’s developer told Healio Primary Care.

Maternal antidepressant use increases the risk for newborn respiratory distress and preterm birth, according to a study published in Pediatrics.