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Video Games Fun but Pose Social, Health Risks

...levision screen with a controller. Children and teens who play excessively often do so at the expense of homework, and playing solo can isolate children from their peers, potentially causing problems for them later in life, Storch said. "Social interactions teach you how to deal with other people as ...

When Teens Actually Want to Become Mothers

...nceive at a later stage many actually propel these teens towards unprotected sex, in a bid to test their infertility. More such surveys are needed according to White and colleagues as these fears can seriously influence decisions made on contraception....

Trouble For Lone Ranger Junkies

...study spreading over nine years and involving 6000 teens that were involved in a drug prevention campaign. They were quizzed at different phases of their school life such as middle school and high school as well as when they reached the age of 23. 'Solitary use is a warning sign that youth will be less...

Multivitamin Supplements Improve Teen Lifestyle: Study

...l of the American Dietetic Association, found that teens taking vitamins were also more physically active, including in team sports and other organized sports. Vitamin use was also linked to a lower rate of television watching - less than 60 percent of vitamin users watched an hour of TV per day compared...

Brain Scan may Help Doctors Predict Schizophrenia

...k. Symptoms usually develop in men in their late teens or early 20s and in women in their 20s and 30s. In rare cases the symptoms, which include hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking, movement disorders, social withdrawal and cognitive deficits, could also appear in childhood. Source-IANS...

Teen Tendencies: 'Vicedom' Enthralls Teens Who Smoke

... teenage years are perceived as 'tumultuous'. When teens take to smoking, it is like the Pandora's Box has opened. //Such teens are prone to misusing alcohol and drugs, in comparison to their no'vice' contemporaries, a recent in...

Teen Boys At Greater Risk To High Blood Pressure Than Girls

...elevated blood pressure among both male and female teens and physical activities decreases the risk of high BP for both the sexes. As well, "the more hours they clocked in sedentary behaviours - so that could be television, Internet use, video games - the more likely they were to have the higher systolic b...

Advertising Blamed For Kids' Poor Choices

...o impose bans and restrictions on// advertising to teens and children. Victor Strasburger, the University...me alcohol advertising for the actions of underage teens who willingly break the law to drink illegally." The academy points out that several Western count...

Contraceptive Use Helps Reduce Rate of US Teen Pregnancy

...traceptives,as against 14% which is attributed to teens exercising patience// and caution and wait longer ...the decline (86%) was due to more se xually active teens using contraceptives, using more effective methods (e.g., condoms and birth control pills) and using...

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

... first study. She pointed out that, unlike adults, teens make few distinctions between "real" friends and p...ites about eating disorders. Ninety-six percent of teens who visited pro-eating disorder Web sites reported learning new dieting and purging techniques. The ...

Unsafe Sex, HIV Infected Transfusion Spreading AIDS in Madhya Pradesh

...in the age group of 20-40 years. With the exposure teens and youth are getting through television, they have started experiencing sex at an early age, further aggravating the problem," say a Madhya Pradesh State AIDS Control Society (MPSACS) official. Western Madhya Pradesh, specially 14 districts of th...

Study Underway to Identify Genes Contributing to Heart Attack Risk

...erosclerosis. “If we can identify people in their teens and early adult life who have a genetic predisposition to develop atherosclerosis, we can manage their risk factors for heart disease and stroke sooner and more aggressively,” said David Herrington, M.D., M.H.S., professor of cardiology at Wake Fores...

Tamiflu: Adverse Reaction Warning, ‘a Must’, Canada Tells Roce

...arm. Most of these incidents involved children and teens in Japan. According to a statement released from the department, "Health Canada has requested that the manufacturer ... update the Canadian prescribing information for Tamiflu to include this new information." Further, Health Canada confirmed the...

AAD Warns Against Indoor Tanning for the Holiday Season

...y’s 2006 – 2007 skin cancer PSA campaign speaks to teens in a language they can understand, instant messagi... 53 million American computer users – most of them teens – use IMs. Many exchange IMs more frequently than e-mail. It has a language all its own, and the Aca...

Research Focus on the Ineffectiveness of Programs for Aboriginal children

...aged mums 31% are in sole parent families 20% of teens are not living with either parent there is four times the levels of extreme stress Professor Zubrick said it was unacceptable that on the United Nations Index of Human Development, which reflects aspects such as life expectancy, literacy and stand...

No Proven Programs to Help Teens Quit Smoking

... reviewers wrote. Nine studies tried to motivate teens to stop smoking through a variety of means, but th...m smoking could be a good thing because they allow teens to practice quitting or “interrupt the progression to more regular or heavy smoking.” Still, the rev...

Proposal to offer free surgery for obese children

...usly contemplating the idea of enabling overweight teens the prospect of stomach surgery, footed completely by the NHS. As per the plan, the surgery, budgeted at an expenditure of ￡8,000 for each procedure, will be given to obese children who have undergone several unsuccessful attempts at losing weight. ...

Teen-age Smokers at Higher Risk Of Developing Asthma

...table cases of asthma.' The authors suggested that teens might refrain from smoking if they understand that, smoking can cause them to develop asthma and perhaps even force them to limit their activities. Source-Eurekalert/ASH/L...

Low Iron levels in infants lead to brain defects

...tment. // The study conducted on 185 Costa Rican teens was published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. It reveals the need for early nutrition in infants. The findings showed that lower the levels of iron; the worse are the learning, memory and thinking functions. "If direct and in...

Nonfatal School Bus-Related Injuries To Children More Common Than Previously Thought

... more independent than younger children, and older teens (15-to 19-years-old) are more likely to ride in a car with a friend or drive themselves to school,” said Jennifer McGeehan, MPH, lead author of the study and project team leader in the Center for Innovation and Pediatric Practice at Columbus Children...

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