Compulsion to smoke after just one cigarette can lie dormant for more than three years
... indicating a "sleeper effect," reveals a study of teenage smoking habits, published in Tobacco Control. Young teens who smoked just one cigarette at the age of 11 were twice as likely to take up smoking within the next few years as their peers who resisted the urge, the study shows. This was despite not hav...Fast pharmacy access to the morning-after pill could prevent 10% more unwanted pregnancies
...pill. "The UK currently has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Western Europe and the highest rate of live births among teenagers" says Dr Kay Marshall from the School of Pharmacy at the University of Bradford. "The morning-after pill often referred to by health professionals as emergency ho...'Puppy fat' is a myth which puts children's health at risk
...lescence is a key time, since excess weight during teenage years pre-disposes adults to continued weight prob...ts, shows that the problems are established before teenage years - since those with excess weight by the age of 11 continued with it during adolescence. Resear...Concern over rising preterm births
...general public health measures to do with smoking, teenage and middle age pregnancy, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, obesity, and social inequities are a good start, they write. Obstetricians should re-evaluate the risks and benefits of delivering babies earlier. If these findings from Denmark a...Mom's nutrition during pregnancy related to child's behavior at age three
Children born to teenage mothers who were iron deficient early in their pre...Shibley professor of biobehavioral health. Sixty teenage mothers, ages 14 through 19, from a mid-size town in Pennsylvania completed the study. Blood samples...Life or death can depend on teenage cancer patients taking their treatments properly
...day's improved treatments, physicians are treating teenage cancer patients with the aim of curing them, rathe...rding drugs. Dr Gesundheit and colleagues cite the teenage years as particularly difficult ones in terms of adhering to a strict treatment regime: "Compliance ...Parents need to be educated about HPV vaccinations for daughters
...ion when young women are most susceptible in their teenage and young adult years. "The origins of cervical cancer lie in HPV infection of the cervix, a sexually transmitted infection most frequently acquired by women shortly after they start sexual activity. In a minority of women, the HPV infection persist...Doctors must work together better to improve survival in teenage and young adult cancer patients
...ted. The same applies to research. This condemns teenage and young adult cancer patients to a lottery in wh...ns are so busy with a huge workload that the rarer teenage and young adult cancers do not really register or resonate with them. This is why it is so very imp...Lack of specialist training for nurses is failing adolescent cancer patients
...or this group, and to the important recognition of teenage and young adult (TYA) cancer as a speciality in its own right. Such recognition is essential if the NHS is to respond appropriately to the criteria laid down in the NICE guidance for the treatment of these cancer patients." 1 Miss Smith, lead/manag...Animal models show that anabolic steroids flip the adolescent brain's switch for aggression
...te that anabolic steroids can dramatically shorten teenage fuses (not known for length under the best of circumstances) and make young people "pop off" for years, a danger to themselves and to others. Melloni and others researchers also are concerned that drug use during a critical window in brain developme...Brenner Children's Hospital researcher says PSA campaign about risky sexual behaviors a success
...in teens ages 15 to 19. In 2000, 95 of every 1,000 teenage girls ages 15 to 19 gave birth in North Carolina. Although there were decreases in the adolescent pregnancy rate through 2003, there was a 2.4 percent increase in the rate in 2004. "A good deal of progress has been made, but we still have a long way ...Prescription painkillers effective in patients with dormant inflammatory bowel disease
...s relatively unknown, it usually starts during the teenage years or early adulthood and is characterized by pain in the abdomen, diarrhea and weight loss....Yale findings hold promise for stopping progression of bipolar disorder
... suggesting that the illness progresses during the teenage years. Bipolar disorder is also known as manic-depressive illness. "The brain changes were diminished in persons with bipolar disorder who were taking mood-stabilizing medications," said Hilary Blumberg, M.D., associate professor in the Department of...Siblings' bad habits brush off
...le models than friends or parents when it comes to teenage drinking and smoking, research has shown. Researchers from The University of Queensland and University of Washington have proved that tobacco and alcohol use by older siblings increases the odds of similar behaviour from younger siblings by three to...Most behaviors preceding major causes of preventable death have begun by young adulthood
...when they reach adulthood than they did during the teenage years. The analysis appears in the January 2006 Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and was conducted by researchers at the Carolina Population Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abus...Teens unaware of sexually transmitted diseases until they catch one, Carnegie Mellon study finds
Most sexually active teenage girls know relatively little about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) until it is too late, according to a paper by Carnegie Mellon University researchers that will be published in the January edition of the Journal of Adolescent Health. "For the m...Psychotropic drug prescriptions for teens surge 250 percent over 7 year period
... by 2001, one in every ten of all office visits by teenage boys led to a prescription for a psychotropic drug. Other findings in the study show that a diagnosis of ADHD was given in about one-third of office visits during the study period. Also, between 14 and 26 percent of visits in which psychotropic medic...Bipolar disorder more common than expected in hospitalized adolescents
...f bipolar disorder, or are simply a normal part of teenage development," says Hunt. The authors assessed a total of 391 consecutive admissions to the psychiatric inpatient unit at Bradley Hospital using a mania rating scale derived from a well-known research interview called the K-SADS (the Kiddie Schedule ...Family habits set drinking path
...a Alati from UQ's School of Population Health said teenage children of mothers who drank one or more drinks a...hood. Dr Alati said maternal depression and early teenage behaviour, such as aggression and delinquency, increased the risk of alcohol disorders in young adul...SLU research on teen moms refutes conventional wisdom: Early motherhood may not ruin their lives
...he long-term negative consequences associated with teenage mothering," says Lee SmithBattle, R.N., DNSc, professor of nursing at Saint Louis University Doisy College of Health Sciences and principal investigator of a qualitative study that analyzed the experiences of teen mothers a dozen years after they had...