Health
Young women and girls are taking sex-ed into their own hands on YouTube
Sex education in Canadian schools continues to be highly politicized and young people are paying the price.
Mar 3, 2020
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News tagged with youth
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Longer treatment with puberty-delaying medication in transgender youth leads to lower bone mineral density
A longer duration of treatment with puberty-delaying medications among transgender youth is associated with lower bone mineral density, according to a new study that will be presented Sunday at ENDO 2022, the Endocrine Society's ...
Jun 12, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Healthy Men: Why are we ignoring the epidemic of white male suicides?
Dear Healthy Men: You recently wrote about a CDC report that supposedly showed that males are more likely than females to commit suicide. Well, my 19-year-old niece recently killed herself and I just saw the new CDC report ...
Oct 25, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study dispels harmful gender dysphoria myth
A first-of-its-kind study by Schulich Medicine & Dentistry researchers dispels a controversial gender dysphoria theory that activists and experts have called inaccurate and harmful to transgender people.
Dec 10, 2021
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Medications
Transgender youth on puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones have lower rates of depression and suicidal thoughts
Recent studies estimate that 1.8% to 2.7%—or approximately 750,000 to 1.1 million—adolescents in the U.S. identify as transgender or nonbinary. Many of these trans youth experience high levels of negative mental health ...
Feb 28, 2022
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Addiction
Teens and young adults overdosing on drugs for common mental health issues
A high number of teens and young adults with an overdose involving a benzodiazepine (BZD), like Xanax, or psychostimulant, like Adderall—medications commonly used to treat mental health issues like attention deficit hyperactivity ...
Mar 10, 2022
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Health
Sugar-sweetened beverages are harmful to health and may be addictive, researchers suggest
Just as we might have guessed, those tasty, sugar-sweetened beverages that increase risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases may actually be addictive. Youth between 13 and 18 years of age who were deprived of sugary drinks ...
Nov 20, 2018
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Medical research
Researchers discover new cause of cell aging
New research from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering could be key to our understanding of how the aging process works. The findings potentially pave the way for better cancer treatments and revolutionary new drugs that ...
Jul 25, 2019
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Neuroscience
Brain region may hold key to aging
While the search continues for the Fountain of Youth, researchers may have found the body's "fountain of aging": the brain region known as the hypothalamus. For the first time, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine ...
May 1, 2013
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Medical research
Sirtuin protein discovery opens door to potential 'molecular fountain of youth'
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, represents a major advance in the understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind aging while providing new hope for the development of targeted treatments ...
Jan 31, 2013
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