Adolescent Medicine

• Adolescent Medicine

First, sexual orientation refers to an individual's pattern of physician and emotional arousal toward other persons. These basic categories include heterosexual, 1 homosexual (including gay and lesbian), and bisexual. Sexual orientation is a combination of influences that include hormonal, genetic, and environmental. Whether sexual orientation is a choice remains debatable. The real debate evolves around environmental factors. Adolescents who are raped and molested during childhood can be greatly influenced and often will seek drugs to drown out their past, many young women become obese or hypersexual, and many young men develop effeminate tendencies. The lack of a male role model in the home may lead to further confusion but no study has been done . There is no evidence to show that se...

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• August 21, 2009

• Port Washington Teachers' Association, American Federation of Teachers, Local 2938, Nysut, Afl-Cio, Mary Anne Cariello, as President of the Port Washington Teachers' Association, and Michele Weiden, on Behalf of Themselves and the Female Students of the Port Washington Union Free School District, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Board of Education of the Port Washington Union Free School District, Laura Mogul, Nancy v. Cowles, Mark Marcellus, Dean Nardone, Roy Nelson, Robert Seiden, David Strom, as Members of the Board of Education of the Port Washington Union Free School District and in Their Individual Capacities and Dr. Geoffrey Gordon, as Superintendent of the Port Washington Union Free School District and in His Individual Capacity, Defendants-Appellees, Society for Adolescent Medicine, New York State Society for Clinical Social Work, New York State Nurses Association, New York State Association of School Nurses, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals and American Academy of Pediatrics, New York ..., 478 F.3d 494 (2nd Cir. 2007)

Sherry B. Bokser (James R. Sandner and Antonio M. Cavallaro, of counsel), New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants. Florence Frazer, Ehrlich, Frazer &...

• Federal Circuits

• Acting U.S. Surgeon General to Speak to Society for Adolescent Medicine On Prevention of Adolescent Overweight and Obesity

To: FAMILY EDITORS Contact: Vaughn I. Rickert, PsyD, +1-845-300-3170, vir2002@columbia.edu, or Martin Fisher, MD, +1-516-457-7296, fisher@nshs.edu, both for Society for Adolescent Medicine

• U.S. Newswire
• March 20, 2008

• Society for Adolescent Medicine Needs a Health Education of Its Own, Says Abstinence Clearinghouse

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Abstinence Clearinghouse released the following today regarding the Society for Adolescent Medicine's recent position paper on abstinence education: In its publicity for a new position paper on abstinence education, the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) reveals its need for a little health "education" of its own. The paper, "Abstinence-Only Education Policies and Programs: A Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine," released by SAM today, claims that while abstinence until marriage is a laudable goal for youth, young people should not be given the education and skills they need to stay abstinent until marriage. Instead, SAM believes that encouraging minors to have sex before marriage is sound health practice.

• U.S. Newswire
• January 05, 2006

• Studies: 'Exergames' a Great Way to Burn Calories

Exergames," interactive digital or video-based games such as Wii Fit and Dance Dance Revolution, are part of today's fitness landscape for children and young adults. But do they really offer a substantial calorie burn? Two studies find that some of the games do, but whether they're fun enough for people to stick with them is another thing. The first study, published online this week in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, set out to quantify how many calories children burned while engaging in a number of exergames, and compared those activities with walking on a treadmill at 3 mph.

• Buffalo News
• March 15, 2011

• Girls More Likely Than Boys to Be Overexposed to Alcohol Advertising in Magazines; Study Published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Documents Girls' Overexposure

WASHINGTON, July 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Underage youth saw more alcohol advertising than adults, on a per capita basis, in magazines in 2002, a new study has found, and girls were even more overexposed to this advertising than boys. This overexposure of underage girls to alcohol advertising comes at a time when public health surveys have found for the first time that teenage girls are drinking more than teenage boys. The research on the exposure of underage youth to alcohol advertising was conducted by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at Georgetown University and was published today in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

• U.S. Newswire
• July 05, 2004

• Mu Children's Hospital Clinic Shows Progress

Melissa Lawson has witnessed the evolution of the University of Missouri Health Care system since 1999, and now she's a primary part of the system's latest addition. Lawson is medical director of the new pediatric specialty clinic at MU Children's Hospital that opened yesterday for tours and an open house ribbon-cutting event. Doctors at the new clinic -- including Lawson, an adolescent medicine specialist -- started seeing patients there today.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• September 14, 2011

• Adolescent Medicine Is Picking Up Specialists

NORFOLK, Va. - The health concerns that are Dr. Joel Brenner's specialty are, to his patients, often blush-worthy. Acne, irregular periods and sexually transmitted diseases are on the list. So are depression, substance abuse and eating disorders. Dr. Brenner's job is to get the teenagers he treats to trust him, talk truthfully and find the medical help they need.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• November 03, 2006

• Forum: Don't Take 'Eeww' for an Answer: Talk to Your Kids About Sex

BY talking to their teens early and repeatedly about sexual health and decision-making, parents can reduce risky sexual behavior in adolescents. This sounds almost too simple. The research says otherwise. As a physician specializing in adolescent medicine, I talk with parents every day who feel they just don't have the skills or the courage it takes to have the "big talk" about sex with their child. Many parents also feel they cannot compete with other sources of information available to their teens, such as peers or the Internet. They wonder if what they have to say in terms of their expectations or values even matters to their teens. In fact, parents who hope to help their teens stay healthy should avoid relying on a one-time "big talk" about sexuality. They should work toward a close...

• New Haven Register
• January 06, 2011

• Time to Stimulate, Not Limit, Pediatric Subspecialist Training

Federal budget cuts threaten training program necessary to fill growing specialist gap, meet increasing patient need BOSTON, May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Washington looks for ways to trim budget costs, one of the programs facing continued threats of cuts or elimination is the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Program, a program administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) that provides federal funds to freestanding children's hospitals to support pediatrician and resident training. A new commentary in the May Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine illustrates the critical need for continued funding of this vital program, which supports the training of more than 40 percent of all pediatricians and 43 percent of all pedia...

• U.S. Newswire
• May 02, 2011