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‘Comprehensive Sex Education’ Favored Against ‘Abstinence-Only’ Progams

... the desired results. //Infact Americans feel that youngsters in schools need to know much more than just avoiding sex , which includes methods to prevent pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. "Abstinence-only programs, while a priority of the federal government, are supported by neither a majori...

New Record Set By Orissa On Blood Donation

...d that the drive created a lot of enthusiasm among youngsters and a new record of 2,017 units was registered on 26th October and was broken by 31st October donations crossing 3,074 units. Orissa Red Cross Society secretary Rabiratna Das said that last year the count was 2,09,925 units of blood from the Orissa...

PM To Inaugurate World Youth Meet On Health

...ing, unsafe roads and HIV-AIDS. The meet will help youngsters to promote and disseminate health-related knowledge,' said K. Sreenath Reddy, executive director of HRIDAY-SHAN, an NGO that is organising the event. 'While it is important to provide young people adequate information about how to protect their hea...

Even five year olds are in the throes of eating disorders

..., said, “It is obviously a matter of concern where youngsters are being affected by these problems.But it is very hard to know what is behind this. It does show the need for much more research into how and why this is happening.” Grainne Smith, of North East Eating Disorders Support Needs, said “You mostly hea...

Eye Tests in Preemies Predict Vision Trouble of Later Years

Having youngsters undergo eye tests at two-and-a-half years of age can help predict vision problems when they're 10 years old, according to a report by Swedish researchers. // Previous research has shown that refractive errors are a common occurrence in children wh...

Public Transport Causing Backaches in Delhi, Mumbai

...f chairs, and rough rides compound the problem for youngsters of both metros," said Dev Mehra, director of Healt...nger generation. "Unruly and drunken driving among youngsters also add to the trouble." Mehra said.Said Arvind Jaiswal, professor at the department of orthopaedic...

Voluntary Counseling and Testing Program in South Africa Successful

...eness campaign of the government, which encourages youngsters to get tested. Government allocates nearly R26 million annually for VCT services. Voluntary Counseling and Testing is available in 4172 service points across the nine provinces <br 'In its media campaign with the theme: 'Taking relationships to...

Laxatives are Not the Right Option for Losing Weight

Many youngsters are trying their best to gain an amazing figure at the cost of their own health. With under eating and vomiting after consumption //of food, a large population is opting for laxative abuse. Assumptions about weight loss Eating Disorders Associatio...

Madhya Pradesh Students to Campaign Against AIDS

...at worldwide millions of children, adolescents and youngsters are at risk and in need of protection. Across the world millions of children under the age of 15 have lost one or both parents to AIDS. "More disturbing is that HIV/AIDS is now engulfing the 'productive population' in the age group of 20-40 years....

Baba Ramdev's Claims to Cure HIV by Yoga

...by Baba Ramdev to do away with sex education among youngsters will be a retrograde step. Sex education helps the new generation to gain knowledge on this vital aspect in a scientific manner, instead of relying on half-cooked and wrong information from peers and other sources. The demand of the time is to open u...

Is Your Child Allergic To Peanuts?

... it just may work. The study included a handful of youngsters allergic to peanuts or eggs. After two years of treatment they acquired a little immunity that gave them protection enough to an accidental bite of the food they were allergic to. 'We're so lucky,' says Carrie White, Elizabeth's mother. Now at th...

Vitamin D or Anti-osteoporosis Drug Reduces Bone Loss from Binge Drinking

...rinking reduces bone mass, which is detrimental to youngsters and young adults, and increases the rate of bone loss in osteoporotic post-menopausal women,” said principal study investigator Dr. Frederick Wezeman, professor of orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation, and associate dean, Loyola University Chicago ...

Tried To Quit Smoking And Failed? Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW

...oking cessation methods. It has been found that, youngsters between the ages of 16 and 24 years do try to quit smoking but meet with failure, as they do not try out tested methods. An article presented in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...

Preschoolers at Risk

...ndeed a note of warning as some 17 percent of U.S. youngsters are obese, and millions more are overweight. Obesity can lead to diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol, sleep problems and other disorders - and the problem starts early. Overweight preschoolers have a five times higher risk of being fat at a...

Low Blood Sodium When Born Linked to Long Term Sodium Intake

...ith the written permission of their guardians. The youngsters were admitted to the study based on whether they had received neonatal diuretic treatment during their first month of life (n=23) or were a matched control having received no diuretic treatment (n=18). Of the total, 21 were Arabs (14 boys, 7 girls) a...

More Youngsters Get Tuberculosis

A growing number of youngsters are contracting tuberculosis, especially those in their 20s, due to poor health from irregular// living and excessive weight loss, according to a report. Last year about one fifth of tuberculosis patients were people in their 20s. According to ...

Smoking Increases the Danger of Losing Vision

...osing vision is considered more serious by smoking youngsters than the other dangers like stroke and lung cancer associated with it. Hence the government should finance advertising movement which should highlight the age related macular degeneration process. (AMD). Generally advertisements which talk about th...

New Zealand Doctors for Restricting Trampoline Sales

...em, the New Zealand Herald reported. It said 25 youngsters under the age of 15 were admitted to the hospital last month following an increase in pre-Christmas trampoline sales, compared with 11 injuries in January 2006. The hospital blamed backyard trampoline use and said they should only be used in areas...

A New DVD Game to Fight Against Obesity

...The game is named as "Body Mechanics," and teaches youngsters the disadvantages of obesity while playing the game. The game begins with an introduction to the game plot by Neuro, a Yoda-like wise man. He requests players to join the team of superheroes to fight the Evil Coalition of Harm and Disease, accordin...

Busting the Exam Blues

...ension several- fold, leading to suicide among youngsters who are conditioned to believe that exams are the reason for man's existence on earth. The teens, who already have trouble coping with their surging hormones, find that their pre- and post- exam trauma is something that is 'more than they can chew'. ...

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