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• Findings On ER Wait Times And Adolescent Risk-Taking Behavior Presented At American Public Health Association Meeting

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 145
  Emory University Rollins School of Public Health researchers presented on a range of topics at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting in Philadelphia, including a study that examined compliance with national recommendations that a physician screen chest pain patients within 10 minutes of their ...
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• Teens’ mental health may determine how long they stay in school (re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, Nov 15 (ANI): A new study has found that poor mental health of children and teenagers has a large impact on the length of time they will stay in school.Lead researcher from Queen’s University Steven Lehrer said that large number of school-based programs have been introduced to prevent childhood obesity ...
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• Nerve Disease from H1N1 vaccine — Teenager diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome after flu shot

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 140
  Examiner.com November 12, 5:51 PM LA Health Technology Examiner Victoria Nicks The 1976 swine flu vaccine program resulted in hundreds of cases of a rare nerve disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). This condition results in numbness and weakness in the lower limbs, which spreads upwards through the body. ...
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• More girls in India are refusing to become child brides.

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 140
  Despite a 2006 law banning the age-old practice, most parents in rural India still want to marry off their daughters before the legal age of 18. Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2009 By Mark Magnier Reporting from Mohammad Nagar Dhani, India - Her fate was all but sealed, the wedding bells ringing in her ...
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• Stressed? Research Says Grab a Chocolate Bar

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 140
  Better Health Research by Donna Parker November 12, 2009 For those who are dealing with lots of emotional stress, perhaps from estrogen dominance , researchers are finding that dark chocolate may help ease the pain. A new study in the Journal of Proteome Research is backing up the original idea of the ...
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• Stress and Obesity

  
  Low Carb Diet Secrets — Authority: 134
  Obesity is a condition in which the energy reserve in human body is raised to a point where it can create certain health conditions or an increased death rate. Obesity is being viewed as an increasing public health threat. Obesity is being considered to predispose different diseases like sleep apnea, cardiovascular ...
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• Gardasil: Good Enough for Girls, But Not Boys?

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 140
  Blogher The community for women who blog. by Suzanne Resiman Ever since the HPV prevention drug Gardasil hit the market in 2006, I’ve been very suspicious. The marketing campaign says that it is the “only vaccine for cervical cancer,” but what Gardasil actually protects against are some strains of HPV, a ...
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• The Cervical Cancer Vaccine may Not Work, but Broccoli Does

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 140
  NaturalNews Thursday, November 12, 2009 by: Kerri Knox, RN, citizen journalist Gardasil, a vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer in women, has recently been the target of debate about its safety and efficacy. While young girls have been dying and key researchers are saying the vaccine doesn’t work, there ...
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• How To Sell a Tampon

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 140
  How advertisers market products you’re not supposed to talk about. Double X Posted: Thursday, October 29, 09 11:21am By Susan Kim Throughout history (and in many parts of the world today), women used rags, sheepskin, or nothing at all to deal with their periods. Getting women to pay for something that had ...
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• Continued Support of Juvenile Sentencing Reform

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  Todays Nashua Telegraph in New Hampshire carries the editorial, " Life with no parole too severe for teens ." Of the 111 juveniles serving suchsentences in the nation, 77 are doing their time in Florida prisons. Inall, 2,570 juveniles are serving life-without-parole sentences in theUnited States, the vast majority ...
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• Child malnutrition is a gender issue in India, say experts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Child malnutrition - a serious issue facing India today - is a gender issue because it is mostly related to women, said health experts and government officials at a panel discussion in the capital Friday.According to Karin Hulshof, representative of Unicef in India, there are three main ...
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• Teen Mental Health Linked to Educational Success

  
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  An award winning new study from a health economics professor examines the effects of adolescent health on educational outcomes. Queen’s University researcher Steven Lehrer and Jason Fletcher of Yale University recently published their paper in the journal Forum for Health Economics & Policy . “Our study ...
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• Teen Alcohol Abuse: A Difficult Issue

  
  Fine Tuning Health — Authority: 443
  Recent alcohol abuse statistics show that alcohol abuse among adolescents is increasing in the United States. What are some of the reasons for this? Many alcohol addiction authorities think that wine, beer, and liquor advertisements produced by the media are a fundamental reason for the escalation of teen alcohol ...
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• Teens’ mental health may determine how long they stay in school

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, Nov 13 (ANI): A new study has found that poor mental health of children and teenagers has a large impact on the length of time they will stay in school.Lead researcher from Queen’s University Steven Lehrer said that large number of school-based programs have been introduced to prevent childhood obesity ...
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• Rats, Bad Decisions and Jelloshots

  
  Scepticon — Authority: 112
  It is an accepted fact of life that alcohol and good decision making have only loose a acquaintance  with one another. Like ships passing in the night, they may meet or they may not. This is true for the momentarily intoxicated but does that propensity for poor choices follow us even after the libations cease? ...
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• Social lives, media in their pockets

  
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  If our kids text, 80% of us do too, according to The Nielsen Company . Nielsen doesnt say why, but we all know: Our kids "hear" us better when we text them, and – besides – its fun to text with them! Heres some more interesting cellphone data from Nielsen: Phone owners are getting younger: Last year kids ...
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• Adolescents Orquesta - Persona Ideal

  
  Venezuelan Music — Authority: 109
  Some poptastic salsa romantica from Adolescents Orquesta with their song "Persona Ideal" performed live in Colombia. The song appears on the groups greatest hits album: "La Historia: Los Exitos". To hear preview tracks from "La Historia: Los Exitos" click here:
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• Why we should redefine irritability as anger

  
  Medical Search Tips, News, and Information for Healthcare Professionals — Authority: 120
  A child psychiatrist from Johns Hopkins argues that the nonspecific term “irritability” should be replaced in DSM-V with a new diagnosis, dysfunctional anger , which will lead to greater precision in understanding mood disorders and other psychiatric conditions. (The PDF of this article appears immediately above ...
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• Recognition for a Leader in Adolescent Developmental Studies

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 530
  If I had a Good Timing category, this would be filed there.  Temple University has issued a news release, " Psychology professor honored for exceptional scientific achievement impacting the lives of young people ."  Dr. Laurence Steinberg acted as scientific consultant on the amicus curiae brief submitted by the ...
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• Steroid Effects; Anabolic Steroid Information

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  There are two chemical classes of anabolic steroids.Despite the amount of media-bashing steroids have received over the years, it may surprise you to learn that steroids do have a number of legitimate medical uses. In males testicular cancer often requires the removal of the testes. After surgery, these men are often ...
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