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Therapists implementing interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents should routinely monitor depression symptoms and consider augmenting treatment for insufficient responders as early as week 4 of treatment

Assessing Symptoms After 4 Weeks of Psychotherapy Helpful in Teens

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Week 4 seems better than week 8 for assessing response, implementing treatment augmentation
Most children younger than 2 years with bronchiolitis seen in U.S. emergency departments and prescribed antibiotics have no documented bacterial coinfection

Antibiotics Often Inappropriately Prescribed for Bronchiolitis in ED

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In almost 70 percent of bronchiolitis cases, antibiotics prescribed with no concomitant infection
The first generic version of Sabril (vigabatrin) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent complex partial seizures in adults and children aged 10 years and older with epilepsy.

FDA Approves First Generic Version of Epilepsy Drug Sabril

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Generic equivalents held to same vigorous manufacturing standards as brand-name drugs
Due to the federal government shutdown

FDA Down to 5 Weeks of Funding to Review New Drug Applications

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Agency cannot accept new fees or applications until the shutdown is over
Vaccine hesitancy is among the top 10 health threats facing the world in 2019

WHO: Vaccine Hesitancy a Major Global Health Threat

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Percentage of U.S. children 19 to 35 months who have not been vaccinated has quadrupled since 2001
Adolescent sports-related concussion is associated with temporary impairments in health-related quality of life

Temporary Impairment in HRQOL After Teen Sports Concussion

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Worse cognitive HRQOL and clinically meaningful impairment in school and overall HRQOL observed
Two patients diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis and upper-extremity neuropathy who were treated with peripheral nerve transfer continue to demonstrate functional recovery at two years

Nerve Transfer Promising for Acute Flaccid Myelitis Patients

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Two children with AFM who underwent surgery for nerve transfer show functional recovery at two years
Achieving a healthy diet from sustainable food systems is feasible but will require considerable shifts toward healthy dietary patterns

Achieving Healthy Diet From Sustainable Food Feasible

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Global adoption of healthy reference diet would reduce morbidity, environmental degradation
The prevalence of undiagnosed asthma is 20.2 percent among urban adolescents

Asthma Undiagnosed in One in Five Urban Adolescents

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Odds of being undiagnosed higher for girls, Asian-Americans versus white non-Hispanics
Clinicians perceive accidental dislodgement of intravenous devices to be a common occurrence

Accidental IV Dislodgement Reported to Be Very Common

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Top 3 causes were confused patient, removal of catheter by patient, tape or securement loose