Car Crash Fatalities Too Often Young Teens

Car crashes are more likely to claim the lives of passengers aged 12 to 16 than younger passengers. Each year the teen’s age increases, so does the risk. This is the finding of an on-going collaborative study involving State Farm Insurance Companies and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The complete details of their findings have just been released in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. Read more

Hey Doc! Switch My Meds!

Over half the teenagers who were recently observed in a study published in JAMA have shown considerable improvement overcoming depression. This is great news in the face of the fact that many teenagers don’t respond well to anti-depressant medications, such as SSRIs, and become desperate for a solution. Read more