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EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, MAY 19, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact author Vicki Fung, Ph.D., call Kory Zhao at 617-726-0274 or email kzhao2@partners.org. To contact editorial author Aaron E. Carroll, M.D., M.S, call Eric Schoch at 317-274-8205 or email eschoch@iu.edu.   JAMA Pediatrics Bottom Line: Parents in low-income families were less likely…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, MAY 12, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact author Charbel El Bcheraoui, Ph.D., email charbel@uw.edu JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlight Bottom Line: A low rate of adverse events (AEs) was associated with male circumcision (MC) when the procedure was performed during the first year of life, but the risk was…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, MAY 12, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact author Jennifer M. Whitehill, Ph.D., call Janet Lathrop at 413-545-2989 or email Jlathrop@admin.umass.edu. To contact editorial author Mark Asbridge, Ph.D., call Allison Gerrard at 902-494-1789 or email allison.gerrard@dal.ca. JAMA Pediatrics Bottom Line: Underage college students are likely to drive after using marijuana…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact author David Finkelhor, Ph.D., call Erika Mantz at 603-862-1567 or email erika.mantz@unh.edu. To contact editorial author John R. Lutzker, Ph.D., call Frances Marine at 404-413-1504 or email francesmarine@gsu.edu. An author interview will be available on the JAMA Pediatrics website http://bit.ly/1adWrco when…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Ruggiero Francavilla, M.D., Ph.D., email rfrancavilla@gmail.com. To contact corresponding editorial author Mitchell B. Cohen, M.D., call Terry Loftus at 513-636-9682 or email terrence.loftus@cchmc.org.   JAMA Pediatrics Bottom Line: There appears to be an increased prevalence of celiac disease among…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact author Marie Claude Ouimet, Ph.D., call Maryse Provençal at 819-821-8000  x72751 or email Maryse.Provencal@USherbrooke.ca. To contact editorial author Dennis R. Durbin, M.D., M.S.C.E., call Dana Weidig at 267-426-6092 or email weidigd@email.chop.edu.   JAMA Pediatrics   Bottom Line: Teenage drivers with a…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact author Douglas A. Gentile, Ph.D., call Angie Hunt at 515-294-8986 or email amhunt@iastate.edu. JAMA Pediatrics   Bottom Line: Parental monitoring of the time children spend watching television, playing video games and being online can be associated with more sleep, improved school…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact author Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D., call Angie Hunt at 515-294-8986 or email amhunt@iastate.edu.   JAMA Pediatrics   Bottom Line: Habitually playing violent video games appears to increase aggression in children, regardless of parental involvement and other factors.   Author: Douglas A….

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author (study No. 1) Stefaan De Henauw, Ph.D., email stefaan.dehenauw@ugent.be. To contact corresponding author (study No. 2) Paulina Nowicka, Ph.D., email paulina.nowicka@ki.se.   JAMA Pediatrics   Electronic Media Associated With Poorer Well-Being in Children   Bottom Line: The use of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact author Marcella Marinelli, M.Sc., Ph.D., email marcella.marinelli@gmail.com.   JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlight   Bottom Line: Pre-school and school-aged children who spent more time watching television got less sleep.   Author: Marcella Marinelli, M.Sc., Ph.D., of the Center for Research in Environmental…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact author Mitch van Geel, Ph.D., email mgeel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl. Please visit the JAMA Pediatrics website (http://bit.ly/1adWrco) for an author audio interview after the embargo lifts. JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlight   Bottom Line: Bullying is a risk factor for suicidal ideation (thoughts) and suicide…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 10 A.M. (CT), THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Stanton A. Glantz, Ph.D., call Elizabeth Fernandez at 415-514-1592 or email Elizabeth.Fernandez@UCSF.edu. To contact editorial author Frank J. Chaloupka, Ph.D., call Sherri McGinnis-González at 312-996-8277 or email smcginn@uic.edu.   JAMA Pediatrics   Bottom Line: Electronic cigarettes, which deliver a…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014 Media Advisory: To author Diane Gilbert-Diamond, Sc.D., call Robin Dutcher at 603-653-9056 or email Robin.Dutcher@hitchcock.org. To contact Stewart G. Trost, Ph.D., email s.trost@uq.edu.au.     JAMA Pediatrics   Bottom Line: Having a bedroom television is associated with weight gain in children and adolescents, and is…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Jørn Olsen, M.D., Ph.D., email jo@soci.au.dk. To contact editorial author Miriam Cooper, M.R.C.Psych, M.Sc., email cooperml1@cardiff.ac.uk.   JAMA Pediatrics Bottom Line: Children of women who used the pain reliever acetaminophen (paracetamol) during pregnancy appear to be at higher risk…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Jane Wardle, Ph.D., email j.wardle@ucl.ac.uk. To contact author Clare H. Llewellyn, Ph.D., email c.llewellyn@ucl.ac.uk. To contact editorial author Daniel W. Belsky, call Rachel Harrison at 919-695-5334 or email rachel.harrison@duke.edu.     JAMA Pediatrics   Obesity Prevention is Focus of…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact author Jonathan M. McGavock, Ph.D., call Ilana Simon at 204-789-3427 or email ilana.simon@med.umanitoba.ca.   JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlight   Elementary school lesson plans focused on healthy eating and physical activity delivered by older children to younger students appear effective at reducing…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2014 Media Advisory: To contact author John W. O’ Kane, MD., call Leila Gray at 206-685-0381 or email leilag@uw.edu.   JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights   Concussions are common among middle-school girls who play soccer, and most continue to play with symptoms, according to a study by…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Flavia Indrio, M.D., email f.indrio@neonatologia.uniba.it. Please visit our For the Media website (http://media.jamanetwork.com/) for a related editorial.   JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights   Giving an infant a probiotic during the first three months of life appears to reduce the onset…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath, M.S.A., call Mary Masson at 734-764-2220 or email mfmasson@umich.edu.  Please visit our For the Media website (http://media.jamanetwork.com/) for a related editorial. JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights   Most students in elementary, middle and high schools are exposed to…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Stewart C. Alexander, Ph.D., call Rachel Harrison at 919-419-5069 or email rachel.harrison@duke.edu. To contact editorial author Bradley O. Boekeloo, Sc.M., Ph.D., call Kelly Blake at 301-405-9418 or email kellyb@umd.edu. CHICAGO – A third of adolescents have annual visits with their…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Michael C. Young, M.D., call Meghan Weber at 617-919-3656 or email meghan.weber@childrens.harvard.edu. To contact editorial author Ruchi Gupta, M.D., M.P.H., call Marla Paul at 312-503-8928 or email marla-paul@northwestern.edu, or email r-gupta@northwestern.edu. CHICAGO – Children appear to be less at…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Marian S. McDonagh, Pharm. D., call Tamara Hargens-Bradley at 503-484-8231 or email hargenst@ohsu.edu.   JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights   Treatment with the diabetes drug metformin appears to be associated with a modest reduction in body mass index (BMI) in obese…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Matthew M. Laughon, M.D., M.P.H., call Danielle M. Bates at 919-843-9714 or email danielle_bates@med.unc.edu.   JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights   Federal legislation encouraging the study of drugs in pediatric patients has resulted in very few labeling changes that include…

Editor’s Note: This article is being released in conjunction with a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention media briefing on measles and global health security.   EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 11 A.M. (CT), THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2013   Media Advisory: To contact author Mark J. Papania, M.D., M.P.H., call Jason McDonald at 404-639-7700 or email gnf0@cdc.gov….

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author David L. Olds, Ph.D., of the University of Colorado Denver, call Mark Couch at 303-724-5377 or email mark.couch@ucdenver.edu. CHICAGO – Home visits by nurses and paraprofessionals to children of low-income women had some positive benefits for the children on cognitive…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Dawn M. Holman, M.P.H., call Brittany Raines at 403-639-3286 or email media@cdc.gov. CHICAGO – Barriers to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among adolescents in the U.S. range from financial concerns and parental attitudes to social influences and concerns about the vaccination’s…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author John D. Meeker, Sc.D., call Laurel Thomas Gnagey at 734-647-1841 or email ltgnagey@umich.edu. To contact editorial author Shanna Swan, Ph.D., call Sid Dinsay at 212-241-9200 or email sid.dinsay@mountsinai.org. CHICAGO – The odds of preterm delivery appear to increase for…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Diane Feskanich, Sc.D., call Jessica Maki at 617-525-6373 or email jmaki3@partners.org. To contact editorial author Connie M. Weaver, M.D., call Amy Patterson Neubert 765-494-9723 or email apatterson@purdue.edu. CHICAGO – Drinking more milk as a teenager apparently does not lower the…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Emily Feinberg, CPNP, Sc.D. call Lisa Chedekel at 617-571-6370 or email chedekel@bu.edu.     JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights   A cognitive-behavioral intervention known as problem-solving education (PSE) may help reduce parental stress and depressive symptoms immediately after their child…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Ellen C. Perrin, M.D., call Julie Jette at 617-636-3265 or email jjette@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.   JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights Parent-training groups conducted in pediatric office settings may improve parenting practices and disruptive child behaviors, according to a study by Ellen C….

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. CT (CT), MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Alison E. Field, Sc.D., call Erin Tornatore at 617-919-3110 or email erin.tornatore@childrens.harvard.edu. CHICAGO – Adolescent boys who are concerned about building muscle and who use supplements to enhance their physique were more likely than their peers to start binge…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 10 A.M. (CT), MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Thomas H. Inge, M.D., Ph.D., call Kathy Francis at 502-815-3313 or email kfrancis@doeanderson.com. To contact editorial author, Michael G. Sarr, M.D., call Brian Kilen at 507-284-5005 or email newsbureau@mayo.edu. CHICAGO – Most severely obese teenagers who underwent bariatric weight-loss surgery…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Joan Luby, M.D., call Jim Dryden at 314-286-0110 or email jdryden@wustl.edu.  To contact editorial author Charles A. Nelson, Ph.D., call Meghan Weber at 617-919-3110 or email meghan.weber@childrens.harvard.edu. CHICAGO – Poverty in early childhood appears to be associated with smaller brain…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Jarod P. McAteer, M.D., M.P.H., call Liz Hunter at 206-616-3192 or email ehunter@uw.edu. CHICAGO – Bottle feeding appears to increase the risk infants will develop hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS), a form of stomach obstruction, and that risk seems to be…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Elizabeth V. Asztalos, M.D., call Sybil Edmonds at 416-480-4040 or email sybil.edmonds@sunnybrook.ca. CHICAGO – Multiple courses of prenatal corticosteroids, compared with a single course, taken by pregnant women to help prevent preterm birth was associated with no increase or decrease…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Valerie Sung, M.P.H., email valerie.sung@rch.org.au.   JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights   Study Examines Probiotics to Prevent or Treat Excessive Infant Crying   There still appears to be insufficient evidence to support using probiotics (Lactobacillus reuteri) to manage colic or…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Michele L. Ybarra, M.P.H., Ph.D., call 877-302-6858, Ext. 1 – 801# or email Michele@InnovativePublicHealth.org. CHICAGO – Nearly 1 in 10 people 21 years of age or younger reported perpetrating some type of coercive or forced sexual violence during their lifetime,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Shaon Sengupta, M.D., M.P.H., call Alison Fraser at 267-426-6054 or email FraserA1@email.chop.edu.   JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights Study Examines Adverse Neonatal Outcomes Associated With Early-Term Birth Early-term births (37 to 38 weeks gestation) are associated with higher neonatal morbidity…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Eve R. Colson, M.D., call Karen Peart at 203-432-1326 or email karen.peart@yale.edu. To contact editorial author Abraham B. Bergman, M.D., call Leila Gray at 206-685-0381 or email leilag@uw.edu. CHICAGO – The proportion of infants bed sharing with caregivers increased between…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Fern R. Hauck, M.D., M.S., call Josh Barney at 434-906-8864 or email JDB9A@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu.   JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights   Duration of Bedsharing Associated with Longer Breastfeeding, Even Though Study Warns of Bedsharing Risk   Frequent bedsharing between a mother…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Douglas J. Opel, M.D., M.P.H., call Susan Gregg at 206-616-6730 or email sghanson@uw.edu.   JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights   Results of a Parental Survey May Help Predict Childhood Immunization Status   Scores on a survey to measure parental hesitancy about…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2013   JAMA Pediatrics Viewpoint Highlights   Dietary Supplementation in Children and Adolescents, Supplementing with the “Correct” Amount by Michael M. Madden, Ph.D., of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine School of Pharmacy, and G. Elliott Cook, Pharm.D., B.C.P.S., of Provider Resources, both of Erie,…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013   JAMA Pediatrics Viewpoint Highlights     Pediatric Faculty Diversity, A New Landscape for Academic Pediatrics in the 21st Century by Leslie R. Walker, M.D., and F. Bruder Stapleton, M.D., both of the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Washington, write: “By…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Ruchi Gupta, M.D., M.P.H., call Julie Pesch at 312-227-4261 or email jpesch@luriechildrens.org. CHICAGO – The overall cost of childhood food allergies was estimated at nearly $25 billion annually in a study of caregivers that quantified medical, out-of-pocket, lost work productivity…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Megan E. Patrick, Ph.D., call Diane Swanbrow at 734-647-9069 or email swanbrow@umich.edu. To contact editorial author Ralph W. Hingson, Sc.D., M.P.H., call the NIAAA Press Office at 301-443-3860 or email NIAAAPressOffice@mail.nih.gov. CHICAGO – Consuming five or more alcoholic drinks in…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact author Jason M. Glanz, Ph.D., call Amy Whited at 303-344-7518 or email Amy.L.Whited@kp.org. JAMA Pediatrics Study Highlights   Undervaccination Appears Associated with Increased Risk of Whooping Cough   Undervaccination with the diptheria, tetanus toxoids and acelluar pertussis (DTaP) vaccine appears to…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2013   JAMA Pediatrics Viewpoint Highlights     The Continuing Importance of How Neonates Die by A.A. Eduard Verhagen, M.D., Ph.D., J.D., of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Annie Janvier, M.D., Ph.D., of Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Canada: “More than a century ago, the leaders…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact corresponding author Elsie M. Taveras, M.D., M.P.H., call Kory Zhao at 617-726-0274 or email kzhao2@partners.org. To contact editorial author Aaron E. Carroll, M.D., M.S., call Mary Hardin at 317-274-5456 or email mhardin@iu.edu. CHICAGO – An intervention to improve household routines known…

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 3 P.M. (CT), MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2013 Media Advisory: To contact study author Claude M. Chemtob, Ph.D., call Allison Clair at 212-404-3753 or email allison.clair@nyumc.org.   Maternal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Associated with Increased Risk for Child Maltreatment   CHICAGO – Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in mothers appears to be associated with an…