Research reveals likely connection between early-life stress and teenage mental health problems
...esses can also lead to problems as far away as the teenage years," said Judy Cameron, Ph.D., a senior scienti...amatic, long-lasting effects that persist into the teenage years and perhaps even adulthood, even in the face of an otherwise stable rearing, such as would be ...New book on bipolar disorder targets 12 million affected Americans, families
...stent irritable, angry mood over and above typical teenage behavior. Your child experiences uncontrollable rages or tantrums over minor day-to-day demands. He or she destroys property, shows aggression, or threatens to hurt others. (If you check this warning sign, seek help immediately.) Your child hates...New TNS study shows most Australian women are overweight
...ht loss pills. It also highlights the pressure on teenage girls to be thin. More than a quarter (26%) of 15 to 19 year olds involved in the study consider they are overweight when their BMI indicates they are not. Thirty percent are in fact underweight. "Being underweight is also unhealthy for our bodies," ...Autism problems explained in new research
...ars who had autism or Asperger's disorder, as well teenage boys without the condition. Autism affects one in 100 Australians and is lifelong condition that affects the way a person communicates and relates to other people. People affected by autism typically display major impairments in social interaction, ...UK's first professor of teenage and young adult cancer appointed in Manchester
... will act as a national research lead and voice on teenage cancer issues as well as increasing research, inte...Eden has done an outstanding job in heading up our teenage cancer unit and we are very proud of the care we provide to young cancer patients. His expertise and...Children whose parents smoked are twice as likely to begin smoking between 13 and 21
...eir behavior. Some parents say they disapprove of teenage smoking, but continue to smoke themselves. The evidence is clear from this study that if parents don't want their children to start smoking, it is important for them to stop or reduce their own smoking," Hill said....Beauty queens urge girls not to sacrifice their bones
...een 1972 and 2003, noted that many pre-teenage and teenage girls worldwide have an obsession with beauty at the expense of health. The beauty queens pointed out that the standard of beauty, even for beauty queens, is changing. They urged women and men of all ages to take responsibility for their bone healt...Childhood predictors of smoking in adolescence
... anti-smoking campaigns is troubling. Predictor of teenage smoking that are commonly cited are parental smoki...nvestigated these and other possible predictors of teenage cigarette smoking and found that salivary cotinine, a measure of uptake of environmental tobacco smo...Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
...n I met in a village near Chennai, India, lost her teenage daughter in the tsunami. She said that when she hears certain sounds she has the very vivid sense that her daughter is just outside, playing with the neighbor's children. Then of course she realizes that it can't be, which is very upsetting. Many pe...Female adolescents trendsetters in teen talk
A casual remark by a teenage girl such as "She's so not cool" may be dismissed as typical teen talk. Young women, however, are leading changes in the way adolescents speak, according to a University of Toronto linguistics expert. "One of the most pervasive findings of sociolingu...Nutritional info helps teens make better choices
...mation did not just influence sales of traditional teenage fare. In one school, chicken entree choices changed as well, apparently based on fat content. Chicken dishes containing 20 or more grams of fat, such as chicken nuggets, popcorn chicken and chicken quesadillas, were less popular after the instituti...'Binge drinkers': Folk devils of the binge economy
... by the British Crime Survey, which indicated that teenage males who frequently visit pubs and clubs and drink heavily are most at risk from violent assault. Yet government statements about the night-time economy remain guarded in relation to links with violence. This reluctance needs to be understood in the...Changes advocated in license renewals for elderly drivers
...o be injured in a car crash. With the exception of teenage drivers, seniors have the highest probability of death resulting from an auto-related accident of any age group. While age alone does not determine a person's ability to operate an automobile, "evidence suggests that certain characteristics associate...Mental illness exacts heavy toll, beginning in youth
...left untreated are associated with school failure, teenage childbearing, unstable employment, early marriage, and marital instability and violence. "The pattern appears to be that the earlier in life the disorder begins, the slower an individual is to seek therapy, and the more persistent the illness," sa...JAMA study finds whooping cough vaccine effective, safe for teens and adults
...nts provides protection that begins to fade in the teenage years. For tetanus and diphtheria, adults receive booster shots to "remind" the immune system to be on watch for a given disease. The original children's pertussis vaccine, however, caused severe injection site reactions in adults. Even newer versio...Cognitive function and compliance with Seroquel examined in separate studies in schizophrenia
...rst signs of schizophrenia typically emerge in the teenage years or early twenties. 3 Almost 2.2 million Americans or 8 out of every 1,000 people suffer from schizophrenia. 4 Medications are important in the management of symptoms. 5 Approximately 70 percent of patients with schizophrenia clearly impr...Mayo Clinic researchers discover genetic glitch in the heart's electrical system
...which both individuals were proficient swimmers. A teenage girl died at swim team practice, after being found floating facedown in the swimming pool. She had just finished swimming four laps. Efforts to resuscitate her were unsuccessful. Another case involved a young boy who failed to surface immediately aft......sity, sexually transmitted infections, smoking and teenage pregnancies among adolescents have also increased ...e exclusive focus on one issue or target - such as teenage pregnancy - misses the other influencing factors in adolescent behaviours, so approaches must be dev...