Teenage smoking still 'worryingly high': Girls twice as likely as boys to puff away
The number of teenagers smoking remains worryingly high, with girls twice as likely as boys to take it up, according to ESRC-sponsored research tracking the habits of a large group of youngsters over the past six years....... Research led by Dr Mark Conner, of the School of Psychology, University of Leeds, involved questionnaires for all the group and breath or saliva tests for some. The research...The use of antidepressant drugs in children is increasing, although evidence for their effectiveness and safety in children and adolescents is scant and widely debated, particularly for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) argue researchers in a letter to this week's BMJ....... They analysed drug prescriptions written during 2002 to over 500,000 Italian patients under 18. A total of 16...Deaths from alcoholic liver disease have increased in the West Midlands in the past decade, reflecting a nationwide trend, according to researchers in this week's BMJ....... The study was set in three boroughs in the West Midlands with a total population of 837,000. Death rates were obtained from the Office for National Statistics....... Deaths from primary liver disease increased from 6 per 100,...