Less sleep, more struggles for elementary and middle school students
... due to drowsy driving. At the same time, kids and teens are "losing" sleep to cell phones, computers, television, after-school activities, larger homework loads and increased consumption of beverages such as coffee and caffeinated soft drinks. With more children being diagnosed with attention disorders an...Psychologically distressed children more likely to be involved in bullying
...found the prevalence of bullying involvement among teens and preteens was approximately 30 percent. Concerns about the role of bullying in school violence, depression, and health concerns have grown over the past decade. Gwen M. Glew, M.D., of the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues surveyed ...Alternative tobacco products: A better, safer option for smokers?
...that smokeless tobacco may actually encourage some teens to take up smoking. What's more, recent cohort studies suggest that U.S. males are more likely to switch from smokeless tobacco to cigarettes than the reverse. Use of both smokeless tobacco and cigarettes is a more common pattern in the U.S. than swi...Body checking found to cause few youth hockey injuries
...many years, said introducing body checking only to teens may actually increase the incidence of more serious injuries. "Bringing body checking into the game at an age when players are big, strong, fast skaters fueled by testosterone could be disastrous from an injury standpoint." Willer's research showed...Family meals cut teenage fatness
... working on the world's longest health study found teens who ate regularly with their family were less likely to be overweight. Lead researcher, Dr Abdullah Al Mamun from UQ's School of Population Health said regular family meals could reduce snacking and make for healthier food and social habits. "Eatin...Adolescents feel less biological pressure to head to bed early
...in adolescence and is one more explanation for why teens can't fall asleep until later at night. Published...ssure to sleep builds up more slowly. As a result, teens aren't sleepy until later in the evening. "We've found another part of the story the mechanism in ...Keck School of Medicine pediatric endocrinologist elected to Institute of Medicine
...ing epidemics of obesity and diabetes in children, teens and adults, and this is a reflection of that work,... a physician focusing on the needs of children and teens with diabetes, but she is also a National Institutes of Health-funded researcher, administrator, tea...Emotional impairment linked to cognitive deficits in bipolar children
... and her colleagues examined the brain activity of teens while they were performing certain mental tasks. The researchers scanned the brains of 10 unmedicated bipolar patients with normal mood and compared them with 10 healthy subjects of the same age and gender. The children, aged 12 to 18, were asked to...Breath test offers hope for early detection of lung-bacteria growth in cystic fibrosis
...y lung bacteria are prevalent with the disease, in teens and adults, the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria appears as the most prevalent cystic fibrosis pathogen and is strongly associated with respiratory deterioration and mortality. Over time, the bacteria transforms into treatment-resistant variants, and ...NCI grants $12.1 million for USC center to study obesity and cancer
...the past two decades, the percentage of overweight teens in the United States has tripled-from 5 percent to... factors in overweight African-American and Latino teens and the use of strength training as a way to improve them. Finding the physiological and psychoso...Speakers and Youth World Information announced for first Neurology EXPO
...ress Center, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Kids and teens can have their "passport" stamped after visiting each of the nine zones in the Youth World section of Neurology EXPO. The Reflex Zone will test your knee jerk. The Sensory Zone will offer a colorful brain puzzle to take apart and put back together. K......th's Pediatrics journal. "Doctors should encourage teens to limit their intake of food prepared away from home and to eat family dinners together, the benefits of which appear to include improved diet quality," said lead author Elsie Taveras, instructor in ambulatory care and prevention at Harvard Medical ...Medication appears effective in treating teen heroin addiction
...ects of the medication." After detoxification, all teens in the study were offered continued treatment with the drug naltrexone hydrochloride, an alternative to methadone. A relatively high proportion of those in the buprenorphine group, 61 percent, accepted naltrexone treatment, compared with only five p...Healthy weight means healthier blood lipid profile in children, study finds
...ng blood tests of lipid levels, showed the leanest teens those with less than 25 percent body fat had the...triglyceride and total cholesterol levels of black teens in the study, a finding researchers say they will pursue further. "The first issue is that fatness ...Arthritis of the spine often overlooked in children
When kids or teens experience aching joints and stiffness it may be more than growing pains. It may be arthritis of the spine and other joints (ankylosing spondylitis), which researchers report can often go undiagnosed for years and years, leading to serious problems ...Diabetic retinopathy occurs in pre-diabetes
...t has increasingly been seen in obese children and teens in recent years. About 40 percent of U.S. adults ages 40 to 74--41 million people--have abnormal blood glucose levels without having diabetes. Many will develop type 2 diabetes in the next 10 years. (In the DPP, about 10 percent of participants in...Teen-agers with Type 1 diabetes already developing cardiovascular disease
...ge boys and girls with type 1 diabetes to 16 other teens the same age without the disease. In each particip...not known how long this gender benefit persists in teens and young adults." In a separate study, Karantza, Kaufman and their colleagues also looked at the ro...Overly tired teen? Sleepiness may signal serious health problem
...ailment: chronic sleep deprivation. But some tired teens may actually have a medical condition such as depr... sleep they need. So our take-home message is that teens need more sleep," said lead author Richard Millman, M.D., professor of medicine at Brown Medical Sch...JAMA study finds whooping cough vaccine effective, safe for teens and adults
... new vaccineagainst whooping cough is effective in teens and adults, carriers of thecontagious respiratory disease so dangerous to infants. Until recently, teens and adults have been unable to be vaccinated with available pediatric whooping cough vaccines due to...Witnessing gun violence increases likelihood that a child will also commit violent crime
...arvard Medical School researchers found that young teens who witnessed gun violence were more than twice as...impossible. But by grouping together and comparing teens with similar likelihood of exposure, some of whom were and some of whom were not actually witnesses ...