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Sufficient intake of Calcium - a must for a healthy body

...vital to take plenty of calcium, especially in the adolescent period, to protect bones later in life and to prevent osteoporosis. The growth of bone mass takes place till the age of 30-35. Bone mass can be built by calcium in milk, cheese, yogurt, other dairy products, leafy green vegetables, dried beans and ...

Adolescent Girl Athletes More Likely to Injure Knees Than Boys

...' increased susceptibility to ACL injuries. First, adolescent girls tend to develop increased quadriceps strength, while not increasing hamstring strength. With very strong quads overpowering the hamstrings, an imbalance occurs, leading to undue stress on the ACL. Second, girls become skeletally mature earlier ...

Factors Associated With Increased Risk of Cardiac Arrest For Adolescents

... estimating the risk of life-threatening events in adolescent patients with suspected LQTS: timing and frequency of recent syncope, the duration of the QTc interval, and sex. This clinically oriented risk-stratification approach might serve as a useful guide for prophylactic treatment decisions to reduce the ri...

Slow Fight Against Childhood Obesity

... future," Lavizzo-Mourey said. The childhood and adolescent obesity rates are increasing drastically in the US. The report reveals that at present, 1/3rd of the kids in America are either obese or at risk of becoming one. The obesity rate for kids and teenagers increased from 16% in 2002 to 17.1% in 2004 and ...

Acne drug may cause depression

...e immobile state than one that is healthy. " The adolescent mice were given Roaccutane in doses equivalent to ... tends to increase depression-related behaviour in adolescent mice, " Dr Bailey said. Retinoids is a class of chemicals that affect the manner in which genes ar...

Most Suicide Rates Decline, but Findings Are Puzzling

...ational Mental Health Association. 'For 40 years adolescent suicide rates rose,' said McKeown, who collaborated on the study with the USC pharmacy professor Dr. Richard Schulz and School of Medicine neuropsychiatry professor Dr. Steven Cuffe. 'Then, the rates began to decline in the late 1980s for adults 65...

Cervical cancer vaccine to become mandatory

...at causes cervical cancer should be compulsory for adolescent girls in Europe//. All the girls of the age 11 and 12 years should be immunized with Cervarix of GlaxoSmithKline or with Gardasil of Merck & Co., according to the journal. This attempt would be similar to the one in the U.S. in which, a bill passed...

What a Boy Needs

... of prime importance to the healthy development of adolescent boys. “The feeling of belonging results from many things, including connections with parents and families, and adult support for independence and competency,” says Dr Phillips. He says boys need to be valued by their families and to have acceptan...

Intervention Needed to Break 'Silence' on Reproductive Health

There is "enormous silence" in India around adolescent sexual and reproductive health issues, and this ca...are and treatment. Between 60 and 70 percent of adolescent girls are anemic. Early marriage, which increases the girls' risk of health complications due to chi...

Brain development in teens curbed by alcohol tolerance

... under-developed regions of the brain. They used adolescent rats as substitutes for teen drinkers.The previous studies by these scientists looked at the physical effects of alcohol. Researchers at the Binghamton University in New York and Harvard Medical School conducted the recent study on the effects of alc...

ADHD Treatment -Phase 3 data on Lisdexamfetamine dimesylate Presented

...a was presented at a national meeting of child and adolescent psychiatrists last weekend. The study was done on 269 children between 6 and 12 who were treated for six months in an open label phase III study. A 60% improvement has been recorded in the primary ratings scale scores for ADHD symptoms, so the poten...

Does Child pornography lead to Child abuse?

... children," Scott said. And in a 1991 study of 160 adolescent males charged or convicted of sex crimes, 70 percent reported that pornography played no role in their illegal activity. Scott said the nature of the pornographic material is a key factor. Extreme porn depicting sadism, bestiality and the like may ...

Adults with BPD may have undiagnosed ADHD

... claims analysis at a medical meeting of child and adolescent psychiatrists, Shire plc announced that several adults with a depressive disorder, Bipolar Disorder (BPD) // , or an anxiety disorder might also have undiagnosed Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Nearly 2.5% of the adults originally d...

Vaccine For Meningococcal Disease Trialled In Western Australia

...alia. Toddlers aged between 18 and 36 months and adolescent children between 10 and 12 years of age are required for the research project MAL...

The need to revamp cervical cancer prevention programs

...er, CSL, has proposed a public program to immunise adolescent girls before they are sexually active. " Gerry Wain, Director of gynaecological oncology at Westmead Hospital, said "There are so many cards on the table. The answer is not obvious. The screening program [as presently organised] has probably run it...

Underweight Children in the Country

...der ICDS. 5. Revival of nutrition programme for adolescent girls. 6. Advocacy through Mass Media. 7. Various States have taken up these initiatives like the Bal Sanjeevani programme of Madhya Pradesh, Dular project of Bihar and Jharkhand and Malnutrition Eradication drive of Government of Tamil Nadu and ...

Adolescent Smokers Have Greater Vulnerability To AUDs Than Do Non-Smokers

...of this study indicated that smokers, particularly adolescent smokers have a greater vulnerability to AUDs than ...ta from the U.S. finds that smokers – particularly adolescent smokers – clearly have a greater vulnerability to alcohol-use disorders (AUDs) than do non-smokers. ...

CBSE's Initiative to Reduce Mental Stress on Children

...ses VI to XII to cater to the special needs of the adolescent in physical, emotional, mental and social development. (viii) Providing counseling services to children before and during examination and after the announcement of results using multimedia, newspapers and television. (ix) Providing guidelines to ...

Study Focus on the Need for Vigilance in Two Key Areas Among Adolescents

...omparatively less at diagnosis. Packard Children's adolescent medicine and eating disorder specialist Rebecka Pe...ger patients lost weight significantly faster than adolescent patients," said Peebles, who pointed out that growth before puberty is critical to future developmen...

Universal Early Intervention a Must

... who will benefit,” said Dr Yong, a paediatric and adolescent psychiatrist. “The Government should fully fund a national home visiting program to offer intervention to all new-born Australian babies and their families. “There’s strong evidence that home visiting programs for parents of young children can im...

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