Pediatrics News

In a large birth cohort study, researchers found that preschool-aged children who had 2 hours of screen time per day were at increased risk for clinically significant externalizing problems, inattention problems and ADHD.

PHILADELPHIA — The role e-cigarettes play on tobacco dependence, the morbidity and potentially mortality from tobacco is “unclear,” a speaker said at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting.

Adolescents with slower CYP2C19 metabolism had greater maximum blood concentration and exposure to both sertraline and escitalopram, according to data published in Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.

PHILADELPHIA — Most health care providers are “blind” to the proper way of preventing and stopping smoking among teenagers, according to a speaker at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

Researchers have identified a surge in the number of American children presenting to EDs who have considered or attempted suicide. They estimated that the number of ED visits nearly doubled between 2007 and 2015.

Study findings indicated that young people seeking help for maltreatment disclosed their experiences through short message services-based crisis services.

Researchers found that adversity early in life was associated with increased gastrointestinal symptoms in children and that this adversity-induced gastrointestinal distress was associated with future anxiety, according to data published in Development and Psychopathology.

Using a multi-polygenic score approach, researchers found that pre-existing mental health vulnerabilities were risk factors for exposure to bullying.

April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day, a day to raise awareness of and educate about autism spectrum disorder.

Cartoon characters — which have been banned from tobacco advertising for nearly 10 years — were just one of the techniques used by cigarette manufacturers to tempt children to boost sales of their sugary drink products, according to an analysis recently published in The BMJ.