Peer pressure matters in young adults smoking decisions
...luence on young smokers. The study also found that teens whose parents strongly disapproved of them smoking...eer pressure and parental approval, they asked the teens whether the adult most important to them was a smoker, how often they were with people their own age...Ecstasy may be drug of choice for those trying to cope with lonelienss, study finds
...g with it when counseling ecstasy abusers in their teens or young adulthood years. Presentation: "Coping With Loneliness: Young Adult Drug Users," Ami Rokach, Ph.D., Institute for the Study and Treatment of Psychosocial Stress, Toronto, ON, Canada, and Tricia Orzeck, B.S., Adler School of Professional Ps...Time, trust key to successful teen-doctor relationship
...der-patient relationship, but it was not something teens trusted unless other key ingredients such as honesty and respect were in place," the researchers say....Teen drug use linked with later health problems
...n their mid-to-late twenties who had used drugs as teens reported more health problems than those who had never used drugs. Health problems included: increased incidence of respiratory conditions, such as colds and sinus infections; cognitive problems, such as difficulty in concentrating, remembering, and ...Preventing misuse of performance-enhancing substances a growing and difficult task
...ng creatine, according to the book. "Children and teens can seriously harm their future health by misusing these substances," Yesalis says. "For example, steroids alone can cause scarring acne, hair loss and testicular atrophy, and may increase the risk of stroke and heart disease. It is just as importan...Cigarette marketing can undermine good parenting
...advertising and promotions are most likely to lure teens whose parents follow otherwise well-proven methods...risky behavior, according to a new study. Although teens with less authoritative parents are generally more likely to start smoking, they are not as swayed b...Powerful burn-prevention video wins national award
...e through the first-person stories of children and teens who have suffered painful burn injuries has won a ... through the real-life experiences of children and teens who were burned after accidents or carelessness with matches, gasoline, go-karts, hot water and hot ...Teens more anxious than assumed
...essor of psychology, and her colleagues found that teens recorded being anxious in about 45 percent of thei...ter that contained a software program in which the teens recorded their feelings and behavior during the day. The computers turned out to be popular with the...Drugs may not be best weapon against teen migraines, study finds
... Headache Treatment & Research Project enrolled 30 teens ages 12 to 17 in the pilot project. Half were trea...igraines a month with moderate to severe pain. The teens also recorded an average of 5.1 hours per month when their headaches prevented them from participati...Inner city adolescents identify jobs, education as keys to their future
... existing in a high-poverty urban environment, the teens presented an optimistic view that solutions offered by education, jobs and interaction with involved adults could help them succeed in life. "This study carries strong messages about the hopes and strengths of inner-city youth," said Kenneth R. Gins...Venlafaxine significantly effective for children and teens with generalized anxiety disorder
...the researchers randomly assigned the children and teens to receive either venlafaxine or a placebo for up ... to the childrens enrollment, and the children and teens gave their assent. However, neither the investigators, the parents nor the children knew whether a ...Muscular dystrophy mouse model yields potential growth factor treatment
...he Duchenne form, death usually occurs in the late teens to early 20s....UNC researchers show passengers boost risk of young driver accidents
...rs riding with novice drivers. They worry too many teens still die on N.C. highways when driving or riding with friends in cars. The three-stage N.C. graduated driver licensing system for beginning drivers was implemented on Dec. 1, 1997, and became the second such system in the United States, Foss said. ...Low-grade cervical lesions likely to regress spontaneously in adoloscent women
...nths or if it progresses. For young women in their teens and twenties, the picture is not the same, Moscicki said. In addition to the data showing that LSILs tend to clear up spontaneously, earlier results from the longitudinal study show that young women have a relatively low chance approximately 30 perc...Study shows infliximab can prolong remissions in Crohns disease
...ly 500,000 Americans, typically beginning in their teens and early 20s. The disease causes inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. It causes diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain and weight loss. In up to 30 percent of patients, Crohn's disease causes fistulas -- openings that burrow through the bowel wal...Number of teens --primarily boys -- having sex declined in '90s
...ng sex in the past decade dropped 8.5 percent, and teens were generally acting more responsibly when it cam...a by Risman and Schwartz showed that the number of teens ages 15 to 17 who reported they had engaged in sexual intercourse dropped from 54.1 percent in 1991 ...Study quantifies cost-benefit of family interventions to prevent teen alcohol use
...lyses, it would then be expected that fewer of the teens in the two intervention groups would be expected to develop problems with alcohol use as adults. Lead investigator Dr. Richard L. Spoth says, Family skills-training interventions designed for general populations have the potential to delay the onset ...Statement from Spondylitis Association of America
...typically strikes both men and women in their late teens and 20s. The SAA estimates that at least 300,000 and likely one million Americans suffer from the disease, making it more prevalent than multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis and Lou Gehrigs disease combined. Unfortunately, many people with spondyliti...Polycystic ovaries can lead to coronary artery calcification, says University of Pittsburgh
...ith PCOS. Dietary intervention and exercise in the teens and 20s, coupled with the use of insulin-sensitizing agents in select individuals, may help to prevent adverse cardiovascular outcomes, such as angina and heart attack, in later life," said Dr. Talbott. #...... at almost 3,000 commercials aimed at children and teens and really got a good idea of not only what was being advertised, but how commercials aired during childrens programming had changed over the past 25 years. For 1976, 1984 and 1992, only commercials shown during Saturday morning kids programming on t...