Pediatrics News

Lithium demonstrated tolerability and safety as a maintenance treatment in pediatric patients with bipolar disorder for 28 weeks, study findings showed.

Study results published in the Journal of Adolescent Health showed that total weight loss and recent weight loss were stronger predictors than admission weight for several important clinical complications in teenagers with restrictive eating disorders.

Approximately 3% of American children have received a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in their lifetime, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Researchers noted that although effective behavioral and medication-based treatments are available for children with the condition, almost 30% of children with current diagnoses are not being treated.

Gay, lesbian and bisexual students in the U.K. were at greater risk for self-harm even after accounting for depression, anxiety, belongingness and self-esteem as mediating factors, according to study findings published in Archives of Suicide Research.

Teenagers with conduct problems or whose friends used cannabis were more likely to use cannabis, which may predict cannabis use disorder in emerging adulthood, according to data published in Addiction.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently concluded that the evidence was insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of primary care interventions to prevent child maltreatment such as abuse or neglect in asymptomatic children.

In the first published study examining viewing patterns and reactions to the show “13 Reasons Why,” researchers found that about half of youth viewers presenting to a psychiatric ED with suicide-related concerns reported the series increased their suicide risk.

Exposure to any type of trauma at any time from early childhood through adolescence was linked to subsequent psychotic experiences, according to study findings published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Insufficient sleep may cause impairments in daytime functioning among teenagers with ADHD, according to findings from a crossover sleep restriction/extension study.

The FDA announced today that to get youth to stop smoking, it will revisit significant parts of two policies that restrict access to newly regulated non-combustible tobacco products, electronic nicotine delivery systems, and e-cigarettes.