The American Cancer Society (ACS) today announced the launch of its fourth medical journal, Pediatric, Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer. This international, multidisciplinary publication will feature ...

ASAM released new treatment standards and admission criteria for adolescents and transition-aged youths with substance use ...

Commission co-chair, Professor Sarah Baird, George Washington University (U.S.) says, "The health and well-being of adolescents worldwide is at a tipping point, with mixed progress observed over the ...

Adolescence is a remarkable period of development and learning, a time when youths explore and adapt to changes in their social worlds and begin to form a sense of who they are and hope to be. It is a ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph.D. "You mean we get all this responsibility without any directions?" This blog post comes out of a talk with parents of teenagers during which a lot of questions dealt with ...

Early adolescence (around age 9 to 13) can be the enemy of school achievement. Rebelling against being defined and being treated any longer as a "child" can cause early adolescents to resist the ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

The Department of Psychiatry offers a two-year fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. Traditionally, this fellowship follows the PGY-III or PGY-IV training years in general psychiatry. However ...

Among today's most pressing development challenges is the matching of financing to health needs. One of the critically underfunded global priorities is adolescent health, with adolescents (aged 10–24 ...

The UAB Adolescent Medicine Subspecialty Fellowship program is an RRC approved training program for physicians who have completed specialty training in pediatrics, family medicine, or internal ...