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Parents Urged To Talk About Sex With Children

... North Carolina ranks ninth in the US for rates of teenage pregnancies, with 95 in every 1,000 teenage girls between 15 and 19 giving birth in 2000. --Edited IANS...

Aggressive Teenage Behaviour: Blame It On The Anabolic Steroids

...as found that aggressive behaviour associated with teenage and young adulthood could be due to anabolic steroids. The effect may be only temporary// , but may have long-term consequences on the developing brain. The results of this study can be seen in the Behavioral Neuroscience journal, published by the Am...

MP’s Ask for Reduction of VAT on Condoms, Essential Health Ite

... HIV cases in Britain are on the rise, along with teenage pregnancies reportedly the highest in Europe. According to the MP’s, the use of condoms can help reduce these alarming statistics. Further, If the Condoms were to cost less, it will certainly promote the use of condoms. br>...

Do Women Die In Childbirth Because It Is More Preferable?

...istant dream. Teenage pregnancy: Adolescent or teenage pregnancy as it is commonly called is pregnancy oc...tem from the controversial issue. Nearly 1 million teenage girls get pregnant each year. The lack of proper knowledge regarding contraception or reluctance to ...

Premature Babies Give It Their Best Shot To Overcome Difficulty

...t. This assessment was further carried out during teenage and early adulthood. The percentage of graduates who had graduated was 82 and 87% amongst the experimental and control group respectively. In addition, over 30% of the study participants were found to pursue postgraduate education. No significant ...

Mood Stabilizing drugs for Bipolar disorder

...mptoms of Bipolar disorder are not diagnosed until teenage and the researchers have found that the symptoms are reduced in patients who were taking Mood stabilizing medications and the researchers feel that these drugs are effective in controlling the symptoms and may offer better treatment in completely cur...

Air pollution increases asthma in Canada

...tremely high asthma rate in boys just before their teenage years may be because of the increased time they spend outdoors during playing and perform heavy exercise and hence they are prone to wheezing which eventually progresses to asthma. The causative agents present in the outdoor air that are suspected...

More Teenagers Take To Smoking

There has been a 30% increase in the number of teenage smokers in Alberta in 2005, when in comparison to 2004. The low priced cigarettes brands like Peter Jackson and Number 7 are being blamed for this by anti-smoking campaigners. The young adult group //is being particularly targeted by the tobacco firm...

Archbishop Slams Attempt to Legalize Abortion In Jamaica

...t 16 per cent mortality deaths last year were from teenage pregnancies who took the step of abortion....

Youngsters Not Aware Of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

...revocable especially when sexually active ignorant teenage girls contract a deadly STD and delay the treatment. Genital Herpes for example is incurable, and Chlamydia can lead to infertility. Every cloud has a silver lining. According to a 2004 study, (co-authored by Wandi Bruine de Bruin and Baruch Fisch...

Smoking Related Scenes in Movies Increase Teenage Susceptibility To Smoke

... also drawn certain conclusions regarding smoking, teenage behaviour and movies in general. The U.S. movies have again been found to exhibit as much smoking as they did in 1950. The balance of smoking has swung toward youth-rated (G/PG/PG-13) films. The negative consequences of smoking are very rarely portra...

Adolescent Marijuana Smokers Face Risk Of Developing Schizophrenia

...f individuals involved in the study. This included teenage marijuana smokers who used the drug daily for at least one year, adolescent schizophrenia patients who didn't smoke marijuana, schizophrenia patients who regularly used marijuana regularly and healthy, non-smoking individuals. The study was limited t...

AIDS More Prevalent Among Teenage Girls In The US

...alth report submitted by Kaiser Family Foundation, teenage girls and those belonging to the minorities are mo...ricans; Latino teens represented 20 percent. The teenage attitude issues related to sex, relationships, friendship and many other similar subjects are believ...

Eating together has both psychological and health impacts

...th study and quite useful in curing the problem of teenage obesity. // In the words of lead researcher, Dr Abdullah Al Mamun from UQ's School of Population Health, “regular family meals could reduce snacking and make for healthier food and social habits.” The novel finding of the study was that a healthy ma...

Deadly Kiss - Peanut allergy kills a teenager

Christina Desforges a teenage girl died due to Peanut allergy after her boyfriend kissed her after having a peanut butter.// Desforges is from the city of Saguenay, though she received a dose of adrenaline soon after the kiss she could not be cured of the hypersensitivity react...

Youth Becoming Sexually Active At A Younger Age

...nerable to forced or unwanted sex. This results in teenage pregnancy followed by unsafe abortion practices. This is adversely affecting the sexual and reproductive health of young people in developing countries like India. But the problem is that there is a stigma attached to sex, and hesitate to discuss t...

Adult Kids Of Alcoholic Mothers Face Health Risk

...s, 14 and 21 years of age. Alati said they found teenage children of mothers who drank one or more drinks a...ularly. Alati said maternal depression and early teenage behaviour, such as aggression and delinquency, increased the risk of alcohol disorders in young adul...

Teenage Mental Problems Could Be The Result Of Stress During Early Life

...amatic, long-lasting effects that persist into the teenage years and perhaps even adulthood. 16 small social groups of monkeys were studied for a three-year period. Certain monkeys were separated from their mothers to induce or simulate an early stress event and were later allowed to be raised in stable soci...

Teenage Girls May Not Need Parents Consent For Abortion

...ce Silber is to give his verdict over the right of teenage under-16s girl to have abortion without their pare...introduced which says that it is not necessary for teenage children’s to get permission or consent from their parents before performing an abortion. Nathalie...

UK Govt Says On Course For National Chlamydia Screening

... greater the risk of infection. As the cervix of teenage girls and young women is not fully matured, they are at particularly high risk for infection if sexually active. Since chlamydia can be transmitted by oral or anal sex, gay men are also at risk for chlamydial infection. The increased incidence in t...

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