Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: adolescent children http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Parents talking about their own drug use to children could be detrimental Parents know that one day they will have to talk to their children about drug use. The hardest part is to decide whether or not talking about ones own drug use will be useful in communicating an antidrug message. Recent research, published in the journal Human Communication Research, found that children whose parents did not disclose drug use, but delivered a strong antidrug message, were more likely to exhibit antidrug attitudes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-parents-drug-children-detrimental.html Health Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:33:13 EST news280747986 Age, not underlying diagnosis, key factor in weight gain in children after tonsillectomy Potentially worrisome weight gains following tonsillectomy occur mostly in children under the age of 6, not in older children, a study by Johns Hopkins experts in otolaryngology- head and neck surgery shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-age-underlying-diagnosis-key-factor.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:28:25 EST news266660894 When prompted, fathers will talk with their kids about delaying sexual activity Although mothers are usually the ones who have "the birds and the bees" talks with their children, with targeted prompting and guidance, fathers will also step up to the plate. That's the finding of a study in the American Journal of Health Promotion that analyzed mothers' and fathers' responses to a public health campaign about the benefits of having parent-child talks about delaying sexual activity.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-prompted-fathers-kids-sexual.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:40:35 EST news265628411 Persistence is learned from fathers, study shows When the going gets tough, the tough ought to thank their fathers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-persistence-fathers.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:04 EST news258913476 First blood test to diagnose major depression in teens A Northwestern Medicine scientist has developed the first blood test to diagnose major depression in teens, a breakthrough approach that allows an objective diagnosis by measuring a specific set of genetic markers found in a patient's blood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-blood-major-depression-teens.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:49:05 EST news253878523