1 in 18 U.S. teens carries a gun to school: Study
(HealthDay)—Fifteen million kids attend high school in the United States, and around 1 in 18 goes armed with a gun, a new study finds.
Dec 02, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Fifteen million kids attend high school in the United States, and around 1 in 18 goes armed with a gun, a new study finds.
Dec 02, 2019
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Seventy percent of teens surveyed report engaging with food and beverage brands on social media and 35 percent engaged with at least five brands, according to a new study from the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity ...
Nov 20, 2019
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Teen girls in South Africa face an extraordinary threat of HIV: By the time they reach adulthood, one in four South African girls will have contracted the virus, and most are first infected during adolescence.
Nov 19, 2019
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Telling the difference between a teen's normal ups and downs and something bigger is among top challenges parents face in identifying youth depression, a new national poll suggests.
Nov 18, 2019
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"Mom, can I get a tattoo?" Tats, along with body piercings, have become mainstream.
Nov 07, 2019
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For many young people, the toughest choice they will ever have to make about food is what to eat at home or what to choose from a menu.
Nov 06, 2019
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Diabetic kidney disease is the leading cause of kidney failure in the nation, and its occurrence in youth with type 2 diabetestype 2 diabetes is rapidly rising. Medical treatments are only partially effective. However, in ...
Nov 06, 2019
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A new USC study shows that mint was the most popular flavor of e-cigarettes used by U.S. teens in 2019, a finding that could impact proposed federal regulations intended to rein in soaring e-cig use among youth.
Nov 05, 2019
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Could America's roads become safer in the future?
Oct 24, 2019
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While fewer straight teens suffer depression than did two decades ago, the same cannot be said for lesbian, gay and bisexual teens.
Oct 22, 2019
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Adolescence (lat adolescere, (to) grow) is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development that occurs between childhood and adulthood. This transition involves biological (i.e. pubertal), social, and psychological changes, though the biological or physiological ones are the easiest to measure objectively. Historically, puberty has been heavily associated with teenagers and the onset of adolescent development. In recent years, however, the start of puberty has had somewhat of an increase in preadolescence (particularly females), as well as an occasional extension beyond the teenage years (typically males). This has made adolescence less simple to discern.
The end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood varies by country and by function, as even within a single country there will be different ages at which an individual is considered mature enough to be entrusted with particular tasks, such as driving a vehicle, having sexual relations, serving in the armed forces, voting, or marrying. Also, adolescence is usually accompanied by an increased independence allowed by the parents or legal guardians and less supervision, contrary to the preadolescence stage.
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