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Youngsters Not Aware Of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

...yet there should be sufficient focus on empowering teens with knowledge of other STD’s, to enable them take an informed step. The risks involved are most often irrevocable especially when sexually active ignorant teenage girls contract a deadly STD and delay the treatment. Genital Herpes for example is inc...

Depression affects one in 10 U.S. teens: study

...nagers, or 2.2 million, were depressed, with older teens more at risk than their younger peers, said the Su...ive treatment they need. The number of depressed teens had hovered at about 10 percent for 15 to 20 years. Despite the fact that it is common and has a hug...

Youth Smoking Sparked By Multiple Factors: Study

...a “novelty seeker” also tends to lead children and teens to smoke. Overall, according to the study, minority youth are less likely than white to try cigarettes, become daily smokers once they do try cigarettes and become dependent on nicotine once becoming daily smokers. While graduating from high school...

Increase in drug abuse by teenagers

... in drug abusing as study shows that more and more teens are popping up pain killers....

Drug Use On The Decline Among US Youth

...e survey began in 1975, and overall drug use among teens and adolescents continued to decline. However, Nor...ut prescription is dangerous. It's imperative that teens get this message," she said. While there was no substantive change in any illicit drug use between 2...

Smoking Related Scenes in Movies Increase Teenage Susceptibility To Smoke

...h the lowest related. In addition, adolescents and teens who were under strict parental guidance regarding watching of R-rated films were less likely to start smoking than those with fewer restrictions. "This result indicates that lowering exposure by removing smoking from youth-marketed films will reduc...

AIDS More Prevalent Among Teenage Girls In The US

...ere represented by young African Americans; Latino teens represented 20 percent. The teenage attitude issues related to sex, relationships, friendship and many other similar subjects are believed to account for a high prevalence of HIV among young girls. For example, is not uncommon for a teenage boy to ...

Viewing Loss Of Virginity As A Social Phenomenon

...ty means to them. Nor do these figures tell us how teens and young adults made decisions about when, where ...oping a comprehensive sexual education program for teens and young adults. Carpenter interviewed 61 young adults in detail from 1997 and 1998. These adults...

FDA Warns Against Birth-Control Patch

...found that about a dozen women, most in their late teens and early 20s, died in 2004 from blood clots believed to be related to the birth-control patch, and dozens more survived strokes and other clot-related problems. More than 4 million women have used the patch since it went on sale in 2002. Several la...

Sexually Abused Girls Develop Eating Disorders

...in the study who reported sexually abused in their teens 300 women had symptoms of eating disorders and 600 women had high concerns about weight gain and change in body shape during pregnancy....

Teens not interested in early sleep

...sity has found a theory that may be the reason for teens going to bed late. Study has found that teens are not interested to go to bed until 11 PM //and they get up early in the morning resulting in a r...

Children At Risk For Chronic Disease Due To Consumption Of Fried Food

...cooperation of all the family members. Encouraging teens to limit their intake of outside food can materialize the goal. Furthermore, home dinners have been found to reduce high-risk adolescent behaviors such as tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use. This finding could help doctors and parents to develo...

Wisdom Teeth: To Be Or Not To Be?

...wisdom teeth removed. These patients in their late teens to early 20s experienced gum problems in later life. In a separate study related to the delay in getting these troublesome teeth extracted, it was found that 1,020 pregnant women in their early to late 20s had developed severe gum disease around th...

Obesity Surgery May Not Work All The Time

...h a decade of bariatric surgery performed on obese teens and adults, data suggest that a significant number of patients fail to sustain clinically meaningful weight loss. Scientists participating in the last year’s IFT Obesity Research Summit who concluded, among other things, that identifying reliable lo...

Gene Activity connected to Schizophrenia

...ld's population, typically surface during the late teens and 20s.In this study, Dr. Maria Karayiorgou of Rockefeller, University in New York and colleagues identified two genes/// located in a region of chromosome 22--a section of DNA that has previously been linked to schizophrenia--that appeared to play ...

Teenage Obesity And Metabolic Syndrome

... researchers. They had found that about 66% of the teens had a measurable amount of a chemical called cotinine in their blood. Cotinine happens when the tobacco smoke is biologically broken down in the body. This indicates the presence of nicotine in the body and researchers said that this is due to second...

Famine May Be A Cause For Schizophrenia

... often appears earlier in men, usually in the late teens or early twenties. The cause of schizophrenia is unknown. There are various theories to explain the development of this disorder. For further information read: http://www.medindia.com/patients /patientinfo/schizophrenia.asp...

Preventable Home Injuries: A Principal Cause Of Deaths In Children

...ad looked into the causes of death in children and teens below the age of 20 years. Their report states that 55% of the unintentional deaths of people in this age group occur due to injuries sustained when at home. Although the total number of fatal injuries decreased over the time period, the ratio of de...

Help teenagers eat healthy by giving nutritional information along with food.

... be the main input that affected the choice of the teens the most. Reference: Journal of Child Nutrition and Management, July 2005...

Condoms May not be safe Enough

...year contract a STD and of these 3 million of them teens or young adults. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires that condom boxes have a mandatory warning stating: "If used properly, latex condoms will help to reduce the risk of transmission of HIV infection (AIDS) and many other sexually transmi...

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