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Kim Painter, Special to USA TODAYPublished 1:42 p.m. ET June 14, 2018 | Updated 3:23 p.m. ET June 15, 2018
Today’s high school students have less sex and take fewer drugs than those of decades past, but they face some newly recognized risks, including misuse of pain pills, according to a report released Thursday.
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By Karen Blum on 06/01/2018
For several years, adolescent medicine specialists Renata Sanders and Errol Fields had been seeing a handful of teenage and young adult patients who questioned or felt disconnected from their gender identity. After last spring’s opening of the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health, however, the physicians dedicated time in the adolescent medicine clinic once a month for these patients, and inquiries have jumped.
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By Gary Logan on 05/30/2018
Pediatrician Hoover Adger Jr., a member of the American Board of Addiction Medicine and The Addiction Medicine Foundation, and former deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, has dedicated much of his 33-year career to adolescent substance abuse. Here he addresses steps at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center to improve physician training and the care of patients with substance abuse issues.
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By HUB Staff
For Kayla Percy, there wasn't much time to get her bearings at the camp in South Sudan before she was called to action. On her second day as a nursing supervisor for a small, 35-bed hospital in rebel territory, the International Committee of the Red Cross brought for treatment that same number of injured rebel soldiers—several with gunshot wounds.
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Maria Trent, a professor of pediatrics and director of the Interdisciplinary Training-Leadership in Adolescent Health Program, has been selected as president-elect of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Trent's term as president-elect began in March, after the conclusion of the organization's 2018 annual meeting. She will become president at the annual meeting in 2019.
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Click here to listen to a podcast with Dr. Maria Trent talking about Mycoplasma Genitalium
By Karen Blum on 05/26/2017
Amidst the children’s artwork decorating Renata Arrington-Sanders’ office door is a black and white poster from the Baltimore City Health Department featuring a young African-American man sporting tattoos and a fur vest: “Have balls,” it reads. “Get tested.”
The message is salient for Arrington-Sanders, an adolescent medicine and HIV specialist who, during pediatrics training, became interested in working with 15- to 24-year-olds, a time period she views as a “tipping point to either go in the right direction or not.” During an adolescent medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins, Arrington-Sanders saw a number of HIV-positive youth. “What struck me was the challenges that they had to deal with, particularly around their sexual identity and behavior, and how not being accepted or being marginalized really creates an environment of negativity toward oneself resulting in adverse health outcomes.”
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