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One-third of US Teen Netizens are Victims of Cyber-bullying

...-bullying. It was found during the study that teens are more pestered by the sharing of their private ...irls were more likely than boys to be targets, and teens who shared their identities online were the most vulnerable. However, most teenagers still believ...

Depression Therapy Reduces Suicide Attempts

...an make thoughts of suicide more common among some teens and young adults. Dr. Simons study is the first ...er conclusion that for populations of people, even teens and young adults, suicide attempts tend to be rarer right after starting antidepressant medication t...

Teenage Girls Conviced for Killing Cabbie

...s, instead went around boasting about it .Both the teens come from family with violent background....

Too Much TV Watching Linked With Poor Academic Performance in Teens

...g information from the parents and interviewed the teens again at age 16, and again at ages 22 and 33. Th...e by age 22. By comparison, only 10 percent of the teens who watched less than an hour of TV a day went on to perform poorly in school or drop out. Those w...

Mumps Breaks Out In Canada

... mumps, but doctors say young adults in their late teens and early 20s are more prone to the disease because they were born in a period when only one dose of vaccine was administered to children. Since 1996, preschoolers have received two doses. The agency has recommended that provinces seeing an outbrea...

Scientists Recommend New Guidelines For Cholesterol Testing In Children

...nation Survey (NHANES) figures, 17 percent of U.S. teens are overweight. In addition, just one in four high... recommends cholesterol screening for children and teens with at least one parent with high cholesterol or a family history of early heart disease. Typical...

Low-Carb Diet Effective for Teens Trying to Lose Weight

...arbohydrate diet appears to be effective for obese teens when run by pediatricians in the office setting. ...Societies in Toronto, shows that 84 percent of the teens who completed the six-month study lost weight, according to Robert Siegel, M.D., the studys main aut...

Teens Need to Eat More Fruits, Veggies to Prevent Obesity

...ise and no sugar-sweetened drinks. Although some teens are meeting each goal separately, only 9 percent a...rence, Foltz said. Similarly, if the 22 percent of teens who spend five or more hours in front of a TV or computer traded some of that time for a walk or if ...

Start School Later in the Morning, Say Sleepy Teens

A survey of sleep-deprived teens finds they think that a later start time for schoo...to improved academic performance, according to the teens questioned. They all attended Harriton High School in suburban Philadelphia, where the school day be...

14-year-old Killed in School Shooting in Canada

... Toronto high school Wednesday, forcing frightened teens to stay in their locked-down classrooms for hours ... explosive device was found in his school, and six teens in Ontario were arrested for allegedly writing bomb threats at a local elementary school. Students...

Researcher Studying Disease That Cripples Newborns

...ughters usually begin exhibiting symptoms in their teens or twenties. Although symptoms tend to get more severe and appear earlier in life with each successive generation, some people inherit such a mild form of the disease that it goes unnoticed. CDM1 is by far the severest form of DM. Because they lac...

Loss of Virginity Could Prove Traumatic If Relationship Falls Apart Subsequently

...w self-esteem. Meier compared the mental health of teens who didn't have sex to teens who were virgins at the beginning of the study, but who lost their virginity during the 18-month per...

Beer Bashes of Teens Spinning Out of Control in US

... having any free time for crime) and a coffeehouse teens can call their own (to get them hooked on a legal stimulant). Linda Bolger, a parent who attended Colombi's session, wants Haddonfield to require students to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting before graduation. A few weeks ago, four students...

CIGNA HealthCare Teams With HopeLab to Help Blast Teen Cancer

...t joint initiative is to help address the needs of teens and young adults with cancer by offering free of charge HopeLab's ground-breaking Re-Mission(TM) video game. 'Re-Mission works. It gives young people with cancer a sense of power and control over their disease,' said HopeLab president Pat Christen....

A Pratical Tool to Detect Bone Mass Deficiencies in Children With Chronic Diseases

...ntaining healthy nutrition and lifestyle habits as teens approach adulthood and identifying children prone to bone deficiencies. Dr. Kalkwarf said most people continue to accumulate bone mass into their 20s, although this study did not evaluate patients beyond the age of 17. Another key finding shows dif...

Younger and Violent Sex Offenders on the Rise

...ber are what he calls "sexual status offenders" -- teens involved in consensual sex whose behavior is unlawful because their partners are underage. Perhaps 1 percent to 4 percent is repeat offenders. And the rest -- somewhere between 70 percent and 95 percent, he said -- are first offenders involved in abu...

Lack of Sleep can Lead Teens to Smoking, Boozing

Researchers have given teens yet another reason to get a good nights rest, for a new study has found that sleep deprivation can lead to people to take up smoking and drinking . The study, conducted by Xianchen Liu, MD, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, was based a question...

Mood Swings and Late Nights are Signs That Your Teenage Kid is in Love

...eports the Telegraph. The researchers found that teens in the early-stage intense romantic love were more...chers noted that physiological changes amongst the teens in the early stage of romantic love included sweaty palms, pounding hearts, and increased and excess...

Teenage Girls Conviced for Killing Cabbie

...s, instead went around boasting about it .Both the teens come from family with violent background. BN/B...

Link Between Migraine Attacks in Teens and Suicidal Tendencies

...ed a high risk of suicide. Researchers said, the teens with migraine headaches were 3.5 times more likely...isorder than those who do not suffer migraine. And teens whose migraines came with a warning sensation carried a pronounced risk of suffering psychiatric dis...

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