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American Red Cross Set to Collect Blood from 16-Year Olds with Parental Consent

Governor Corzine signs Bill to enable 16-year olds to give the gift of life PHILADELPHIA, June 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine on May 6, 2009 signed new legislation which reduced the minimum age for donating blood to 16 years of age with parental consent. ...

Study shows workplace benefits of influenza vaccination in 50-64 year olds

Workers age 50-64 who received influenza vaccine lost substantially fewer days of work and worked fewer days while ill, according to a new study in the Feb. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases , now available online. Given the concerns about antiviral drug resistance among this year's flu str...

One in a Hundred Eleven-year Olds Use Drugs to Enhance Performance in Sport

More than one per cent of eleven year olds admit using performance enhancing drugs to do better in sports reports a study published online ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine . By the age of 15, the proportion taking them had increased from 1.2 to 3% and users said they...

Even five year olds are in the throes of eating disorders

A survey conducted among pre-teens, under 13, has revealed that nearly hundreds of them are being diagnosed with anorexia and bulimia.// The survey showed that some children had to be admitted to the hospital for nasal feeding and in a sad case, a child succumbed to kidney failure due to acut...

Eagles to Host 2nd Annual American Red Cross Training Camp Blood Drive

...s.com. Most healthy people who are at least 17 years old and weigh 110 pounds or more are eligible to donate blood every 56 days. Sixteen year olds can donate blood with parental consent. Everyone interested must make a blood donation appointment by visiting pleasegiveblood.org or calling...

Chronic and Complex Diseases on the Rise in Philadelphia: Adults Using More Medications to Treat Chronic Conditions

...COPD), including emphysema and chronic obstructive bronchitis, jumped 9.1 percent among Philadelphians ages 20 to 44, 16.2 percent among 45 to 64 year olds and 44.9 percent among Philadelphians 65-plus. The incidence of adults with high blood pressure and diabetes surpass the national average accor...

Researchers find possible environmental causes for Alzheimer's, diabetes

...th rates is anticipated in higher age groups. Yet when the researchers compared mortality from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease among 75 to 84 year olds from 1968 to 2005, the death rates increased much more dramatically than for cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease, which are also aging-associat...

Aerobically unfit young adults on road to diabetes in middle age

... CHICAGO --- Most healthy 25 year olds don't stay up at night worrying whether they are going to develop diabetes in middle age. The disease is not on their radar, and middle age is a lifet...

New Studies Show Nursing Workforce Critical to Success of Health Reform

... papers released today include: Education Policy Initiatives to Address the Nurse Shortage Linda H. Aiken, Robyn B. Cheung and Danielle M. olds We have an historic opportunity to prevent the nursing shortage by acting now to expand nursing school enrollments at a time when applications are...

Travis McCoy, Lead Vocalist & Songwriter of Alternative Hip Hop Band Gym Class Heroes, Travels to South Africa, Philippines and India as MTV International's 2009 Staying Alive Foundation Ambassador

...000 children below the age of 15 are living with HIV There are an estimated 1,000 deaths every day due to AIDS: 71% of all deaths of 15-49 yr olds are due to AIDS! India 2.31 million people are living with HIV in India 39% of these 2.31 million a...

Network Merchants, Inc (NMI) Founders Donate $50,000 to Schaumburg's Children's Home & Aid

...of education at an infant level and break the cycle for future generations. He said, "Karen told us she taught a class at a high school where 15 year olds lacked basic reading skills. Those students had a similar outlook as their parents - bleak. She said imagine what we could have accomplished if we rea...

Sacred Heart Hospital Starts to Expose Students to Stroke Awareness at an Early Age

... Kids Learn the Link between Healthy Living and Reducing Health Risks EAU CLAIRE, Wisc., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Ten year olds aren't typically at risk for stroke, but lifestyle habits developed at this age could lead to stroke risk factors. A program run by Sacred Heart Hospi...

Use science to convince teens a sober prom is better, AAAS says

...rom Ormond Street Hospital in London says that almost a fifth of 12-13 year olds and more than a quarter of 14-15 year olds reported damaging or destroying things after drinking. They May Get Re...

Stepping Up: D.C. Wards 7 and 8 Teens to Teach Prevention of HIV, Obesity in Summer Youth Program

...ucators take their knowledge and peer influence to the stage, both in community health workshops and a live theatre production designed for 12-19 year olds living in Wards 7 and 8. “We are fighting two killers with this grant, in HIV and obesity,” said Chet Burrell, CareFirst President a...

St. Christopher's Foundation for Children Ronald McDonald Care Mobile(R) Dental Program to be Celebrated at Foundation's Apple Blossom Ball

...01, the Foundation's dental program has provided free, quality dental care and treatment to thousands of uninsured or underinsured three-to-eight year olds throughout the Greater Philadelphia Region. "We are fortunate to have such strong community partners that help make this program a success year a...

Mother-daughter breast density study points way to earlier cancer risk assessment

...ammography and a random sample of 100 also consented to have a breast MRI. Results show that percent breast water variation is higher in 15-19 year olds than in 20-30 year olds, and decreases with age, as backed by analysis of the 100 mother-daughter pairs who both had MRI. The researchers found t...

Children's National Unveils Display to Raise Awareness of Violence Against Youth

...shirts testify to the reality of violence against teens and the strength of the survivors. Teen Life Clubs are empowerment programs for 11-14 year olds sponsored by the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. These clubs help youth develop individual strengths and build life skills by using a...

Web's Fastest Growing Health Site is a Video Site

...the period 2) All video view data is company-reported About Health Guru Media: Health Guru Media is the leading health website for 18 to 40 year olds and the largest provider of health video online. The Health Guru content library has over 1,000 videos covering 75+ health conditions, and is the mo...

CVS Caremark Study Documents Changes in Prescription Drug Use to Treat High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol and Diabetes in Children and Adolescents

... usage overall, the greatest rate of increase was found among 6- to 11-year olds (18.7% among females and 17.3% among males). (Logo: http://www.news...ouths in June 2007. In addition, the results indicated that 16- to 18-year olds had the highest rate of use overall, with treatment rates of 5.9 per 1,000 ...

Boys Skin Care Range Finds Interesting Results

...New OXY, revealed some interesting findings about boys attitudes towards self-image. An extensive questionnaire was circulated amongst 16-24 year olds across the UK to gain further insights into the pressures on young people in today's highly competitive, image-obsessed world. Fashion, beauty and the...

Americans United for Life Condemns Ruling Increasing Minors' Access to Dangerous Plan B

...y pharmacy and obtain this drug without medical oversight or parental involvement." The court ordered the FDA to make Plan B available to 17 year olds under the same conditions that it is currently available to adult women, and to do so by April 21, 2009. The court's ruling, which accepted as fact t...

U.S. District Court Finds the FDA's Actions on Plan B(R) Tainted by Politics

...ourt ordered the FDA to reconsider its decisions regarding the Plan B switch to OTC use and ordered the FDA to permit Plan B's availability to 17 year olds without a prescription beginning in 30 days. "This ruling validates what we have known all along - politicians trumped the scientists when it cam...

Advocates for Youth Applauds Court Ruling on EC Age Restriction

... and violated the agency's "reasoned and good faith decision-making." The court ordered the FDA to extend over-the-counter access to Plan B to 17 year olds within 30 days and to reconsider making it available without a prescription for those younger. "The court has sent the FDA a clear and unambiguou...

Federal Court Rules FDA Must Reconsider Plan B Decision

...ys to extend over-the-counter access, which is currently limited to 18 year olds and over, to 17 year olds. "Today's ruling is a tremendous victory f...that the FDA's justification for denying over-the-counter access to 17 year olds "lacks all credibility," and was based on "fanciful and wholly unsubstantia...

In Tough Times, Kids May Find Solace With Grandparents

...gative influence of parents separating and be a resource for children who are going through these family changes." In interviewing 11- to 16-year olds from England and Wales, Attar-Schwartz and her team found that the more conversations the youths had with a grandparent, including asking for advice o...

Amid rising childhood obesity, preschoolers found to be inactive

...ct funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the researchers looked at 3-, 4-, and 5-year olds enrolled in 24 community-based preschool programs. They found that the preschoolers were inactive for much of their preschool day, with 89 percent ...

2008 National League MVP Albert Pujols Teams with ADA's Give Kids A Smile

...ne central voice advocating for oral health care for underserved children. The GKAS program expansion's mission is to eradicate cavities in five year olds by 2020. For information on donating to the ADA Foundation Give Kids A Smile Fund, please go to http://www.ada.org/ada/adaf/donate.asp . The P...

Child and adolescent obesity: Family-based programs including behavior therapy can work

...orldwide obesity epidemic in young people is continuing to gain pace. The International Obesity Taskforce now claims that, worldwide, 10% of 5-17 year olds are overweight and 2-3% are obese. Paediatric obesity rates now stand at 30% for the Americas and 20% for Europe. Socio-economically disadvantaged ch...

Can't chalk it up to 'baby fat'

...uary issue of the journal Pediatrics . Using electronic medical records (EMR), researchers reviewed BMI measurements recorded for 60,711 2-18 year olds who had at least one well-child visit between June 1999 and October 2007 at MetroHealth. The BMI measurement showed that 19% (11,277) of the children...

Parents of Murdered Dating Violence Victim, Legislators, and Teachers Unite to Launch 'MADE' - Moms and Dads for Education to Stop Teen Dating Abuse

...ave been in a relationship say they have been victims of verbal, physical, or sexual abuse by their boyfriends.(1) -- One in five 13-14 year olds in relationships say they know friends and peers who have been struck in anger (kicked, hit, slapped, or punched) by a boyfriend or girlfriend.(2) ...

Younger People, Not Seniors, Getting More Colds and Feeling Run Down

...oosting dietary supplement. Instead, the younger one is, the more vulnerable Americans seem to be with more than seven out of 10 (71%) 18-to-34 year olds reporting they get at least one cold a year. Additionally, two thirds of those aged 35 to 44 feel this way, yet, just more than half (57%) of those 45...

Massage Therapy Use Holds Steady, Despite Lagging Economy

...rceptions and usage Young Americans and those in lower income groups are the most likely to consider massage for stress. Fifty percent of 18-24 year olds and forty-six percent of those making less than $25,000 a year say they would considered massage to manage stress. While lower income and young Amer...

Study offers new insights into teenagers and anxiety disorders

...ronic conditions that tend to persist if untreated. "Once fear develops, it becomes self-perpetuating," Craske said. Study of 7-to-12-Year olds Craske, with her colleagues Ornitz and Naliboff, as well as Lindsey Bergman, associate director of the UCLA Childhood OCD, Anxiety, and Tics Disord...

Survey Shows Parents' Best Intentions Out of Step With Expert Recommendations in Protecting Kids From Flu

... Important Choice to Make this Fall Gaithersburg, MD (PRWEB) August 21, 2008 -- A new survey of parents of eight-to-17-year olds shows that vaccination ranks next to last among things they believe they can do to help protect against the influenza virus. Although public health gu...

Dartmouth researchers say too many children see extreme violence in movies

...by an estimated 10 million children, or about 48 percent of 10-14 year olds. "Our data reveal a disturbingly high rate of exposure among 10-14 year olds nationally to extremely violent movies," says Keilah Worth, the lead author on the study and a post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth Medical School and at...

Red Cross NASCAR Partners Rally to Support Relief Efforts

...eded. Anyone 17 years of age or older, weighing 110 pounds or more and feeling in good health may be eligible to give blood. Some states allow 16 year olds to donate blood with parental consent. About the American Red Cross The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and counsels victims of disasters; prov...

Binge drinking due to 'copying' behavior

...year old population participating in 1.5 million binge drinking events each week, used complex modelling techniques and interviews with 504 18-24 year olds to draw their conclusions. Binge drinkers were defined as participants who got drunk on three or more drinks (women) or on four or more drinks (m...

Cancer incidence and mortality in young people decreases with increasing deprivation

...alling. We therefore analysed trends in 15-39 year olds to look at the changing pattern with age. We found... ages but a greater rate of increase in 20-29 year olds than at older ages. In 20-24 year olds the annual percentage change was 4.1 and 4.0 in 25...

Organizers of cancer clinical trials are neglecting teenagers and young adults

...in all three years. In 2005/6, 42.6% of 10-14 year olds with cancer were recruited to clinical trials, 22....e slight increases in accrual rates for 15-19 year olds (41.3% aged 10-14, 27.3% aged 15-19), but a drop f...7/08 data suggested that recruitment of 20-24 year olds has fallen to approximately 7.5%, compared to 39.7...

Teen Blood Donors More Prone to Complications

...es related to fainting (including concussion, stitches and broken jaws) were more than twice as frequent in 16- and 17-year-olds as in 18- and 19-year olds and more than 14.46 times as likely than in the over-20 group. These incidents can influence the willingness of young donors to donate blood again...