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Doctors now recommend cholesterol, depression screenings for children, HIV screenings for teens

Posted at 3:19 PM, Dec 07, 2015
and last updated 2015-12-07 15:21:27-05

The American Academy of Pediatrics has published new recommendations for pediatric health care in 2016.

Among those recommendations are depression screenings for ages 11-21, HIV screenings for teens 16-18, and high cholesterol screenings for children ages 9-11.

All of the included recommendations were approved in October 2015 and will be published in January 2016.

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Click here to read the 2016 Recommendations for Preventative Pediatric Health Care.