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VIDEO: Post legalization, what effect is recreational marijuana use having on children?
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- Deepak Chitnis
BALTIMORE – Several experts from the states of Colorado and Washington come together to discuss the increasing need for care and education...
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VIDEO: Children exposed to marijuana at risk for long-term neurocognitive issues
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- Deepak Chitnis
BALTIMORE – Dr. Paula Riggs discusses the dangers of children being exposed to marijuana, either through direct contact or prenatally.
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Operating with pain: Surgeon workplace injury underrecognized
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- Deepak Chitnis
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VIDEO: Caring for transgender youth will require care across specialties
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- Deepak Chitnis
Comanagement will likely be increasingly used to care for transgender youth, as such patients often require care across several specialties and...
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VIDEO: Transgender care becoming an increasingly important component of pediatric care
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- Deepak Chitnis
With more and more youth coming out as transgender, providing quality health care to them is becoming increasingly necessary, but not all current...
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Infantile hemangiomas clear faster with Nd:YAG treatment
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- Deepak Chitnis
BOSTON – A single treatment with a 650-microsecond, pulsed 1064nm neodymium-doped Nd:YAG laser can clear infantile hemangiomas without any...
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Behavioral seminars for parents can improve child’s behavior, decrease corporal punishment
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- Deepak Chitnis
BALTIMORE – Programs that offer parents tools and techniques to better communicate with their children can improve parent/child relationships and...
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VIDEO: Childhood obesity, particularly severe obesity, is not declining
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- Deepak Chitnis
BALTIMORE – A study of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data from 1999 to 2014 shows that rates of childhood obesity are not...
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Consider behavior therapy first for young children with ADHD
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- Deepak Chitnis
Parents of children between ages 2 and 5 years with ADHD should undergo behavior therapy before having their children placed on medication.
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VIDEO: Comanagement effective at treating mental health issues in pediatric patients
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- Deepak Chitnis
BALTIMORE – The rise of comanagement among pediatric group practices bodes well for future treatment of pediatric patients with mental health...
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Children with internalizing symptoms may not get enough attention
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- Deepak Chitnis
BALTIMORE – Children with internalizing symptoms are at a higher risk of not getting referred to specialists than those who also exhibit external...
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Multispectral laser safe, fast, effective for removing multicolored tattoos
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- Deepak Chitnis
A multispectral laser system of 755 nm, 532 nm or 1,064 nm with a picosecond pulse duration was safe and highly effective at eliminating tattoos...
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Aggressive approach to photodamaged skin is safe, effective, in small study
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- Deepak Chitnis
Rather than treating photodamaged skin over several treatments, using a high-energy laser treatment can take care of the problem in as little as...
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VIDEO: Treating opioid addiction in emerging adults
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- Deepak Chitnis
BALTIMORE – Dr. Marc J. Fishman discussed how to most effectively treat young adults with opioid addiction.
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HHS calls on Congress to approve supplemental Zika funding
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- Deepak Chitnis
The White House implored Congress on April 6 to act quickly on requests to allocate substantial funding for combating the Zika virus, as the...