Tag: Adolescents / Teens

Among current users, flavored e-cigarette use reported by 84.7 and 73.9 percent of high school and middle school students

Of those likely hospitalized primarily for COVID-19 during Jan.1 to March 31, 2021, 31.4 percent were admitted to ICU

Seven cases of acute myocarditis, myopericarditis identified in healthy male teens within four days after second Pfizer-BioNTech dose

Health care providers should watch for unusual heart symptoms among young people who have just received the vaccine

Almost two-thirds of pediatric spinal fractures in the U.S. occur in patients aged 15 to 17 years, most often due to motor vehicle accidents

Odds of self-reported asthma among e-cigarette users similar to that of tobacco smokers

Gender diversity was 7.1 percent among White youth compared with higher prevalence among Hispanic, Black, multiracial, other race youth

Involuntary hospitalization associated with being aged 12 years or older and being from Black versus White ethnic group

Those with a past-year visit had higher levels of trauma symptoms, adverse childhood experiences, multiple violent exposures

News comes as COVID-19 deaths are now averaging around 600 per day, the lowest tally since early July