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Sex Education In Schools Ineffective

...havior. Innovative approaches designed to decrease adolescent risk behavior are urgently needed,' said Dilys Walker, of the National Institute of Public Health in Morelos, in a report prepared for the British Medical Journal. Source: Eurekalert...

Prehypertension in the Young Leads to Hypertensive Adults

...m symptoms of hypertension in the young during the adolescent age have to face the serious consequences// of hyp...od pressure classification in an otherwise healthy adolescent population.’ The researchers identified different factors in boys and girls that appeared the most p...

Take it if you can - Tough Times in Life Churn out Greenhorns

... cultivate a positive mind-set within the child or adolescent which will stay with them throughout life. Kim said: "Parents are role-models for their children, and show the children how to cope with stress- if the parents are matter-of-fact about negative occurrences and are "happy-go-lucky" then the kids may e...

Stimulant Medications More Effective In Treating ADHD Than Nonstimulants

..., Ph.D., lead researcher and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University. “Our results should help physicians who have had to rely on qualitative comparisons among published trials, along with their own clinical experience, to draw conclusions about an ADHD medication’s relati...

WHO Calls For More Regulation On Tobacco Products

...d for anti-tobacco programmes, especially aimed at adolescent girls, among whom the rate of smoking was apparently increasing. Tobacco use, it finds, also continued to expand most rapidly in the developing world, where half of tobacco-related deaths occur. By 2020, if current trends continue, seven out of ever...

Five Year AIDS Awareness Campaign To be Launched By The Government

... 21.4 million youth volunteers from five youth and adolescent organisation namely National Service Scheme, Nehru... UNDP will also contribute Rs 30 crore. A separate adolescent and HIV/AIDS division will be established in the ministry along with an adolescent, gender and HIV/A...

Virginity Vows by Teens may Mask Truth

New York, - A study aimed at gauging adolescent health, has said that those teens who swear celibacy and virginity till marriage, show a propensity to cover //the truth about their sex lives , compared to teens who are not so rigid about maintaining their virginity. The study analyzed virginity...

Number of Children, Teens Being Treated for Mental Disorders is on Rise

...ers. In addition to recording whether the child or adolescent patient received a prescription for antipsychotics, the physician or a staff member also logged the patient’s age, sex and race or ethnicity; the length of the visit; the physician’s specialty and whether the patient received psychotherapy. The numb...

US Teens turn Wiser to Risky Behavior

... reduced further. As director of the division of adolescent and school health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Howell Wechsler, says, ‘We're delighted that we're seeing some progress, but the reality is that risk-behavior levels are just way too high.’ ‘We want to celebrate that most of...

Helping a Family Going Through an Illness

...and whether they can “catch” it. Adolescents. An adolescent can fall behind if emotional distress associated with a parent's medical condition interferes with her concentration. It's important to be aware of signs that a teen might be getting involved in risky behaviors or displaying symptoms of depression or...

Ranbaxy Gets USFDA Nod For Simvastatin

...emia requiring modifications of lipid profiles and adolescent patients with Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HeFH). "We expect to launch Simvastatin 80mg on an exclusive basis immediately. We believe that by offering an affordably priced generic alternative, we will have a positive impact on the co...

Neurology behind Drinking in Teenagers

...y financed laboratory experiments on the brains of adolescent rats subjected to binge doses of alcohol have show...effect being found to be significantly stronger in adolescent rat brain cells than in the brain cells of adult rats. Researchers have related this to the alcoho...

Inhalants: The New, Convenient High for Kids and Teens

...drug abuse,” says David Rosen, M.D., MPH, chief of adolescent medicine in the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the University of Michigan Health System. Inhalant abuse may seem like youthful experimentation to some, but it can lead to very serious health consequences and death, even the f...

Researchers Warn That Whooping Cough Is Still Very Prevalent

...re's a debate about whether we should introduce an adolescent booster, but that could push it upwards into the parent population, which has its own set of problems. That's the dilemma.” Meanwhile a spokesman for the Health Protection Agency said, “We're fully aware that protection from the vaccine wears off. B...

Aggressive Girls Make Unkind Mothers

...ted by Sue Bailey, professor of forensic child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Central Lancashire it was found// that school girls who bullied their classmates turn to be really bad mothers. The researcher presented her study results at the annual meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists i...

Risk Of Premature Death In Obese Adolescents

...xtaposed with those of Hu's study on the impact of adolescent obesity on future mortality, Katz says. "Perhaps the judicious use of weight-control medication could be used to mitigate this threat," he says. "But relying on drugs or surgery to contain the threat that obesity poses to young people is testimony ...

Audit Body Criticises Madhya Pradesh for Low Nutrition Levels

...s year. "The main beneficiary would be children, adolescent girls and expectant and nursing mothers who will get the supplementary nutritious diet from mother and child welfare centres (anganwadis)," said a women and child welfare department official. The state's budget for the overall development of women ...

Teens and Pregnancy

...r to accomplish what they wanted. For example, one adolescent said her child would be older when she wanted to b... more responsibility and would miss out on typical adolescent experiences. Some said they would have to put their lives on hold and revise their life goals. They ...

Antidepressants may be Linked with Suicide Attempts in Teens

...that depression is a key risk factor for adult and adolescent suicide and that antidepressant agents are effective for adult and adolescent depression.” (Source: Newswis)...

Psychiatric Waiting Lists Must be Cut Down

...ntal health patients and, in the area of child and adolescent psychiatry, in particular, there are waiting periods of one year or more.” Neville added, “I am calling on the Minister for Health to take this small step in addressing the crisis in psychiatric services by immediately making available the NTPF and ...

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