Youth

Inadequate Drug Treatment For Youth

Nine out of ten kids who need drug treatment are not getting it. The survey on Drug Abuse shows that 1.1 million children 12-17 years old have problems with drugs and alcohol. Only about 122,000 of them got treatment in the year 2000.// "Those kids are only the tip of the (drug abuse) iceberg," says Mitchell Rosenthal, head of Phoenix House Foundation, the nation's largest non-profit...

More Youth In Himachal Resort To Suicide

More and more youth belonging to Himachal Pradesh are committing suicide by consuming poison as a result of stress and changing lifestyles.// In the year 2005 alone, as many as 1,254 people committed suicide by consuming poison, according to sources from the State Forensic Laboratory. "This figure has been rising each year since 1995 when 841 people died. It rose to 1,123 in 1999 a...

Abuse of prescription drugs among youths on the rise

New research suggests that, though illegal drug use is declining among children and young adults, they are abusing prescription drugs, especially pain relievers, at an increasing rate. Commonly abused prescription drugs include codeine, methadone, oxycodone, and Ritalin. The analysis of data from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse found that almost// 3 million adolescents and about 7 mil...

Genetic mutation to the 'fountain of youth' discovered

Scientists from Caltech have identified a common genetic mutation called C150T transition in people over 100 years old, a possible key to discovering a "fountain of youth". This genetic mutation was found in the mitochondrial DNA of white blood cells, in a study of a group of 52 Italian centenarians. The researchers found that 17 per cent of the 52 had the mutation, while it was found in only 3.4...

Cosmetic plastic surgery for a youthful healthy look

Looking young and healthy is now much easier than earlier and according to James Wells, M.D., president, American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), many people, both men and women are seeing plastic surgeons as early as their 20s, contrary to the past, when patients would wait until they were 50 to visit a plastic surgeon to reduce the normal signs of aging. He also added that non-surgical trea...

Canadian Youth at risk of heart disease

In a recent study made by Heart and Stroke Foundation it was found that Canadian youth are at a risk of being affected by heart disease. About 30% of people in their 20s are overweight and larger propotion of smokers are between 15 and 29 years. About 80 per cent of adult Canadians have at least one of the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and about 10 per cent have three risk factors asso...

Youth Becoming Sexually Active At A Younger Age

The age limit of Indians becoming sexually active is declining rapidly. With a rise in pre-marital sex among people in 15-19 years age, sexually transmitted infections, including AIDS, are spreading equally rapidly.// It has been estimated that half the HIV infected people worldwide are between 15 and 24 years of age. In an official statement released today, the spokesperson of Christ...

Drug Use On The Decline Among US Youth

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed that the use of drugs and smoking is on the decline among the youngsters in the US. There has however been an increase in the usage of prescription drugs for // non-medical purposes. The University of Michigan conducted the 2005 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey for the NIH, and concluded that the overall results were good. It foun...

Youth Smoking Sparked By Multiple Factors: Study

Youth smoking is sparked by multiple factors, such as smoking parents or friends, dropping out of high school and smoking at a young age//. A study based on a national sample of more than 14,000 young adults 21.8 years old on average found many common factors contribute to smoking among youth. Depression, for example, increases a young person's risk of becoming a smoker, as does finding...

Advertisements Prompt Youth To Drink

A study conducted in the US has revealed that seeing advertisements related to alcohol prompts teenagers to start drinking. The UK has one // of the highest youth drinking rates in the European Continent, with nearly 20% of those aged between 11 and 15 years drinking at least once a week, up from 13% in 1990. Several studies have found an association between drinking and advertisin...

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Drug Menace among Youth Quadruples since 1997

Scotland: This ain’t funny, but drugs seem to hold many youth under a spell. Recent figures have revealed the alarming rise of drugs among youngsters,// to the tune of an increase of 400%, ever since the labour has come to power. Experts have reiterated the need for specialized services to remedy this menace, among children. Neil McKeganey, professor of drug misuse research at the Uni...

Cortex Of Youth With Superior IQ Matures Fast

The thickening and thinning of the brain plays an important role in distinguishing the youth with highest IQ. // The researchers at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans has found how the brain's outer layer, cortex, thickens, and will be at its peak, during the childhood stage, reflecting a high-level th...

Coffee Bars: A Boon For China's Jobless Youths

Jobless youths of China who find themselves in a fix, by not able to find a job for themselves, can now heave a sigh of relief as mushrooming coffee bars across the country's metros offers them great opportunities, to serve as baristas. // Youngsters under great pressure to find a job in China now have a new option - serving as baristas in the mushrooming coffee bars in the country's...

Web Romance Is Catching Up Among The Youths In China

Romance through Internet is slowly catching up in China with number of youngsters trying to find their love live on the net through an online meeting place known as Bulletin Board System or BBS. // Li Mei met her boyfriend Liu Wei in a chat room called "Pie Love", set up by the well-known Shuimu Tsinghua BBS (SMTH), which is run by students from prestigious Tsinghua University here. Fo...

Tobacco Consumption By Youths Will Hamper India’s Economic Growt

Consumption of tobacco by youngsters will cost their dear lives and India by the year 2025 may lose about 2.5 million people a year, which will greatly affect the country’s economic growth//, warns experts. India is home to over 250 million tobacco users and more than 900,000 people succumb to tobacco-related diseases every year. But the most ominous sign is the number of youths fallin...

Yoga Can Keep Youths Away From Drugs: Ravi Shankar

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravishankar has said practising yoga, pranayam and meditation will help youths to keep away from drug and alcohol abuse. // 'Youths crave for something different and it is our duty to introduce yoga, pranayam and dhyan (meditation) to them,' he said while interacting with reporters last evening at Tapobhoomi, a ashram of Brahmeshanand Swamiji at Kundaim, 15 km...

Stressed African American Youth At Greater Risk for Kidney Disease

African American youth could experience greater changes in their kidney when they are stressed than white youth. //A study presented at the ISHIB2006 found that lower levels of urine microalbumin and sodium were excreted in the urine of African American youth as compared to white youth. In their study,...

Vice President Launches AIDS Awareness Campaign for Youth

Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Tuesday launched the Youth Unite For Victory On Aids (YUVA) campaign aimed at creating awareness on HIV/AIDS// among the 450 million youths of the country. The campaign, conceived by the ministry of youth affairs, will be carried out by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) in collaboration with other organisations, including the Nehru Yuv...

Culprit of frequent infections in childhood and youth - Diabetes

There seems to be a link between the oft occurring infections in children and the onset of Type I diabetes//. Medical records of more than 4000 patients, below the age of 29, with Type 1 diabetes were studied by British researchers .It was observed that those who had a number of childhood infections showed a 6 to 7 % tendency of developing Type 1 diabetes. Simon O'Neill, di...

BPO Companies are Blamed for Spoiling the Health of Asian Youth

Ageing would set in very early for sleep-deprived youth working continuously on night shifts in BPO firms, warn experts. // 'Heavy food during night, skipping breakfast, eating lunch in the evening and all such irregular habits affect their health,' says Dr Lim Li Ling, Deputy Director, sleep disorders unit, Singapore General Hospital. Besides premature ageing, their overal...

Canadian Youth to Help South African AIDS Awareness

The Canadian youth-based "Lets Stop Aids Org" is currently touring South Africa to raise awareness of AIDS and funds for medication for children living with HIV/Aids.// Betty Chiu, a member of this organization has tested negative for HIV/Aids earlier this week. She is encouraging other youngsters to follow her example and get themselves tested for HIV/AIDS. The organiz...

Face-lift: Essentials for a youthful look

A center that promotes 'well-being' has been instituted in Kensington, West of London, founded by Carolan Brown, famous for being late Diana, The Princes of Wales’, personal trainer,// is fast gaining popularity for its one day programme that claims to make its clients look and feel nearly 80,000 years younger. The programme encompasses a combination of consultation and therapy. The...

MP Forms Youth Network to Spread Awareness on AIDS

Madhya Pradesh is forming a network of youth, called the Red Ribbon Clubs, to spread awareness on HIV/AIDS.// The networking process, started recently, is part of the state's strategy to overcome the deadly disease that has affected 1,806 people so far. "Considering that 40 percent of AIDS patients in the state belong to the 21-30 age group, the government has decided to e...

New Study To Find Means Of Reducing The Risk Of Diabetes In Youth

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is planning to conduct a fully sponsored study, in which hundreds of school children of the 6th grade from 42 middle schools are to take part //to determine as to how the risk of diabetes could be reduced in the youth. It was explained that the study would determine as to whether changes in school food services and physical education (PE) classe...

Head Injuries Lowered among Canadian Youth

The past decade saw a decrease in traumatic head injuries among Canadians under age 19 by 53 per cent according to a new report released on Wednesday.// When the Canadian Institute for Health Information looked at hospital admissions for traumatic head injuries from 1994 to 2004 it found that overall, injuries were down by 35 per cent since 1994, with children and youth showing the lar...

Being Teased Predicts Poor Psychological Functioning in Youth With Cleft Lip

A new study has helped to determine the psychosocial effects of cleft lip and/or palate among children and young adults//, finding teasing to be a predictor of behavioral problems. This study is published in the latest issue of The Cleft Palate–Craniofacial Journal. The study included 160 children and young adults with cleft lip and/or palate and an additional 113 with no clefting. Anx...

Youth Of Canada Wary Of Cigarettes But Not Of Alcohol

Lesser number of Canadian youth smoking but a larger number of them is experimenting with alcohol.// According to a report realised on Wednesday by health Canada reduced number of Canadian youth are trying to smoke cigarettes or use other tobacco products in 2004-2005 in comparison to a decade ago. It was announced that the 2004-05 ‘Youth Smoking Survey’ for calculating th...

The Search For Eternal Youth-DHEA Not The Magic Potion

Researchers at the Mayo clinic have conducted a randomised, placebo controlled, double blind trial on 87 men and 57 women to study the effects of the popular antiaging// supplement DHEA(dehydroepiandrosterone). The report published in the New England Journal of Medicine (Oct 19) has come out with the findings that DHEA cannot be considered the magic potion to restore youth. The study...

PM To Inaugurate World Youth Meet On Health

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the first world youth meet on health here Nov 14, in which hundreds of participants from 37 countries will discuss a range of health issues. // National and international health experts, about 10,000 students and 270 delegates from 37 countries will talk about issues ranging from smoking in schools to healthy gender relation at the five-da...

An Alarming Increase in Diabetic Cases in youth in Asia

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder which leads to various other problems like hypertension, heart diseases, renal disoders to name a few. // Type 2 diabetes is a disease caused largely due to obesity and lack of exercise. According to researchers in South Korea, there has been an alarming rise in young people developing the disease. Sedentary lifestyles coupled with Fast food consumptio...

Athletic Gear in Youth Not Protective Against Near Fatal Blows to chest

Recent research has revealed that children who play active sports like baseball, hockey, football or lacrosse risk sudden death from a hard blow to the chest although they// may be clad in protective gear. The study presented at the annual American Heart Association meeting in Chicago revealed that commercially available equipment may not be protective enough for young athletes if the c...

Homeless Youths Need Health Insurance

Researchers examined health care service use among a group of newly homeless adolescents who had become homeless two years prior to see if differences existed// among those who had returned home and those who remained homeless. By the end of that period, 63 percent had returned home, with the rest remaining homeless. The researchers found that most youths in the study sought out healt...

HIV Awareness Hazy in 73% of Youth

New Delhi: There is definitely more to it than what meets the eye. The young in India are sexually active before marriage and outside of marriage// according to the findings of the Social Assessment of HIV/AIDS in India. Both sexes are ill informed about HIV/AIDS and protective measures, with girls scoring highest in ignorance and boys, having all the wrong information. Among the sex...

Workplace Pressures, Hazards Raise Risk of Job Injuries in Youths

Exposure to work hazards and a frenetic job pace increases the likelihood of injury among adolescent and young adult workers, a new systematic review suggests.// Work setting also appears to play a role in predicting the risk of injury, with food service and construction industry jobs topping the list of hazardous employment in this age group. “These studies provide suffic...

Kerala Youth Die of Carbon Monoxide Inhalation

The police in Thiruvananthapuram, capital of the southern Indian state of Kerala, have said that "chance inhalation" of fatal amounts of carbon monoxide// (CO) had caused the death of the three partying youngsters, including a girl in December last. At that time three putrefied bodies were recovered from a closed garage, by the side of a car parked there. The news had sent had sent sho...

Texas Youth Commission Reeling Under Multiple Charges

The Texas Youth Commission’s (TYC) facilities continue to reel under allegations of ward neglect and abuse, after the Dallas Morning News unearthed sordid// details about the agency. Leaders of the state continue the investigations of sexual and physical abuse of the juvenile inmates, as well as gross neglect of their health. Reports have shown that the inmates have had to wai...

Smoking on Television is Harmful to the Health of the Nation's Youth: BMA

Deirdre Barlow is obviously stressed. Who wouldn’t be with a daughter like Tracey! But is that a good enough reason to show her puffing her way through// a mountain of cigarettes three or four times a week? Deirdre Anne Barlow (née Hunt, formerly Langton and Rachid) is a long-running character on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She has been played by Anne Kirkbride since 1972. D...

Alarming Rise of Methamphetamine Use Among Australian Youth

Drug abuse is increasing at an alarming rate in Australia, among the youth// especially. Teens as young as 14 are turning to drugs and at least one in ten in that tender age group has tried them, according to Statistics on Drug Use in Australia 2006, released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. According to the report, an estimated 100,000 Australian's have t...

Antidepressants- Not Harmful To Children And Youths

Researchers now claim that dosing children with antidepressants are in fact, not dangerous. This is contrary to popular notions established// mainly before 2004, by various studies that linked suicidal thoughts and such attempts, to the use of antidepressants. These studies had in fact resulted in the Food and Drug Administration of United States allocating the ‘black box’ or severes...