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Vaping and edible consumption of marijuana increased by more than 7 percentage points each among high school seniors from 2015 to 2018, according to study findings published in JAMA Pediatrics. The increases coincided with a decrease in smoking marijuana among the same population.

There are not many relevant data on the effectiveness of closing schools during coronavirus outbreaks, according to results from a rapid systematic review published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.

Low education was able to predict incident CVD among patients who were initially healthy and CVD mortality among those with prevalent cardiometabolic disease, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal.

ATLANTA — In this video exclusive, Laura L. Hayman, PhD, FN, FAAN, FAHA, professor in the department of nursing at the University of Massachusetts Boston College of Nursing and Health Sciences, discussed her presentation on primary and primordial prevention of CVD in children, with a strong emphasis on strategies to use in schools, at the FH Foundation’s FH Global Summit.

Adherence to spectacle wear is higher in students with poor presenting visual acuity and greater improvement in visual acuity with correction.

Despite improvements in ART over the last 4 to 5 years, there are still many patients with HIV not in care, and strategies are needed to “really reach everyone,” according to Joseph Eron, MD, of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.