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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Early Puberty Soared in Girls During the Pandemic - Time    Italy noticed it first. It was the first country to lock down during the COVID-19 pandemic, and later in 2020, researchers at Florence’s Anna Meyer Children’s University Hospital were the first to point out a puzzling trend: More young girls than ever had been showing up to the hospital with clear signs of early-onset puberty.  The cases weren’t unique, but their frequency was. Since early-onset—or “precocious”—puberty first gained widespread clinical attention in the 1990s, it’s become steadily more common worldwide. Defined as the appearance of secondary sex characteristics such as breasts, pubic hair, and vocal changes or other signs of biological maturity in girls 8 or younger and boys 9 or younger, precocious puberty has been difficult for researchers to attribute to a single cause or mechanism. But a mysterious, pandemic-generated spike in cases—in Italy and beyond—has provided experts with a new opportunity to revisit their dominant theories in hopes of an answer. Case studies have now rolled in from clinics around the world, many of whom saw at least a two- or three-fold increase in precocious puberty diagnoses after March 2020. In China’s Henan Province, for example, doctors at 22 facilities saw five times more cases in 2020 than they did in 2018.More recently, documentation has turned to inquiry.  There’s no conclusive answer about what causes premature development, though research shows that the constellation of factors at play includes stress and trauma, as well as lifestyle habits like poor diets and lack of exercise that are tied to weight gain in children. In many countries, pandemic measures saddled children with this exact package of pressures. It’s no wonder that precocious puberty rates soared. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � You Are Not Your Anxiety - Harvard Business Review    Learning how to manage stress, anxiety, and other mental health challenges takes time. These videos are meant to help you define some mental health terms you should be familiar with and provide you with guidance on how to find relief. Anxiety is something I’ve lived with my entire life — from worrying about homework assignments in grade school to overthinking my college major to catastrophizing my decision to quit my first job. I didn’t always know the name for what I was experiencing, which made it even more difficult to address. Continued here Pandemic slowed cancer diagnoses, but late-stage cancers came back with a vengeance - STAT    Early-stage cancer diagnoses decreased by nearly 20% in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. A new study published in Lancet Oncology emphasizes how, because of disruptions in care, patients were more likely to get diagnosed with deadly metastatic disease — across nearly all cancer types. This study is the most comprehensive analysis of cancer diagnoses during the pandemic, using a nationwide registry that captures over 70% of all cancers in the United States. The starkest decline was observed after the initial shutdowns, with the regular 70,000 monthly cancer diagnoses (captured by the study’s inclusion criteria) being cut in half in April 2020. While some cancers can be detected by screening — such as lung, breast, colon, and cervical — others require access to primary care, timely referral to specialists, and diagnostic tests. In the early months of the pandemic, however, much of this went silent, according to Hannah Hazard-Jenkins, director of the West Virginia University Cancer Institute, who was not involved with this study. “We ended up shutting down everything that was ‘elective’ in anticipation of a large volume of patients with Covid.” Continued here

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