'Significant number' of parents of junior athletes adversely affect their child's development
...w to help their child develop and are exposed to a youth sports environment that is increasingly professional," they add....Students feel safer in ethnically diverse schools, UCLA psychologists report
... classrooms in this sample of public middle school youth in the Los Angels area. However, co-author Adrienne Nishina, an assistant professor of human development at UC Davis, said she expects that students from other ethnic backgrounds would experience similar benefits from ethnically diverse schools. "Oth...Concerned Black Nurses of Newark honors Rutgers College of Nursing Professor Robert Atkins
... Responsibility and Resiliency), a community-based youth development program and co-founder and director of Healthy Futures for Camden Youth, a public health initiative which is affiliated with Rutgers University. From its headquarters at Rutgers Newark, Rutgers College of Nursing offers a broad range of a...Underage drinkers account for about 17 percent of consumer expenditures for alcohol
...l advertisements in magazines, for example, expose youth aged 12 to 20 years to 45 percent more beer advertisements and 27 percent more advertisements for distilled spirits than adults of legal drinking age." "The financial interests of the alcohol industry appear to be antithetic to the public health inte...Multiracial youth more likely to engage in violent behavior, substance abuse
...sitive ethnic identity can shield some multiracial youth from behavior problems. The study was published i...ly more likely than white, black or Asian-American youth to have smoked cigarettes. The odds were 38 percent less for whites, 32 percent less for blacks and...Suicide awareness, prevention programs needed in schools
...the resources to effectively deal with the at-risk youth they identify. And there are no federally funded resources available for mental health assessment. As a result, schools only focus on having students pass the Washington Assessment of Student Learning or other assessment tests and are ignoring their...Tanning ads commonly seen in high school newspapers
...e is no restriction on advertising such devices to youth in the United States. Scott Freeman, M.D., University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, and colleagues examined the frequency of tanning advertisements in 131 newspapers from 23 public high schools in three Colorado counties. ...Self harm high among Goth youths
...lf harm and attempted suicide are high within Goth youth subculture, finds a study published on bmj.com tod...hiatric disorders in later life. Contemporary Goth youth subculture has been linked with self harm, but there is little evidence to support this. Researchers......iplinary study of the associations between deviant youth and impulsivity and lack of control to gamble Led by Dr Robert Rogers, a team at Oxford University will study internet gambling including personality traits and risk of on-line gamblers Professor Gill Valentine and colleagues at Leeds Univer...Institute of Medicine advisory: Sleep disorders and sleep deprivation
...rowing concern about sleep loss among children and youth raise questions about the nation's ability to tackle problems associated with sleep. SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND SLEEP DISORDERS: AN UNMET PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM, a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, assesses the country's...Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine theme issue on children and the media
...commonly advertised on TV. "Although children and youth are encouraged to watch what they eat, many youth seem to eat what they watch, and in the process increase their risk for increasing their energy inta...Combining alcohol and Red Bull reduces the 'perception' of impairment
...as Red Bull have become increasingly popular among youth and young adults in recent years. Users often report reduced sleepiness and increased sensations of pleasure. In the April issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research , Brazilian researchers conduct the first controlled scientific study ...Insulin levels in African American children worsen through puberty
...c beta-cell function decreased in African American youth throughout puberty while the level remained static in Caucasian kids. These data demonstrated that puberty may have a unique effect on beta cell compensation to insulin resistance in young African Americans. Puberty is a transient phase that may act ...New anti-drug program shows 'phenomenal' success by focusing on positives
...ign's success may be that the theme resonated with youth and stressed positive reasons to avoid drugs. "Strong fear appeals regarding alcohol and marijuana, we've learned over the years, are typically not effective with teens," she said. When campaigns focus on the negative consequences of drug and alcohol...Pregnancy, not high-risk behavior, predictor of STD testing among newly homeless youth
...ing tested." The researchers surveyed 261 homeless youth who were aged 12 to 20, had been away from home at...erestimate of rates among sexually active homeless youth in general, as many diseases such as chlamydia and genital herpes may be asymptomatic. The researche...Historic records shed light on soldiers' lifelong war scars
... soldier's lifetime. The UCI researchers found the youth of the soldier, the extent of war horrors witnessed and prisoner-of-war experiences were linked to increased signs of cardiac, gastrointestinal and nervous disease throughout the veterans' lifetimes. In fact, the youngest soldiers who witnessed the b...Blood safety program in South Africa associated with decline in HIV-1 in blood donations
... HIV prevalence is high and programs targeting the youth and promoting repeat donation were initiated. Risk behavior education programs were developed for staff and donors. Structured donor interviews with direct oral questioning were institutionalized to ensure understanding of the self-exclusion question...Australian medicine again recognised in Australian of the Year
...70 percent of all cervical cancers. Vaccination in youth will prevent women from contracting the virus. There are more than 200 deaths a year in Australia from cervical cancer. "With the awarding of the 2005 Nobel Prize to Australians Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, and last year's Australian of the Year ...Tufts University receives federal grant to address occupational risks among immigrants
...nts and cleaning agents, the study team will train youth educators who will teach immigrant workers about o...ive in occupational and environmental health. "The youth educator training, for example, will benefit from materials and methods developed in our work with D...... several other NIH institutes, national health and youth organizations, and community-based groups. "We Can!" provides resources to encourage healthy eating, increase physical activity, and reduce sedentary time. More information on "We Can!" is available at http://wecan.nhlbi.nih.gov. To achieve the resul...