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Health & Wellness News tagged with teens

Early Bedtime May Help Stave Off Teen Depression
Health & Wellness  (tags: Health, Depression, news, Research, Teens )

Jollygirl
- 151 days ago - forbes.com
Teens whose parents pack them off to bed at 10 p.m. are less apt to become depressed or have suicidal thoughts than their peers who stay up much later, recent research shows.
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Teens and Depression
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, mental health, wellness, depression, suicide, teens, children, prevention, treatment, warning, death, risks )

Dee
- 186 days ago - capitalnews9.com
Twenty percent of teenagers are affected by depression before they reach adulthood. Untreated depression is the number one cause of suicide. "Depression can be a difficult problem to pick up on and sometimes to know about," said Dr. Manny Cirenza.
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FDA to Allow Plan B Birth Control for 17-Year-Olds
Health & Wellness  (tags: FDA, government, Morning After Pill, health, teens, prevention, protection, women )

Dee
- 200 days ago - news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - Seventeen-year-olds will soon be able to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription, a decision conservatives denounced as a blow to parental supervision of teens.
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Report Warns on Serious Mental Problems in Teens Using Pot
Health & Wellness  (tags: study, drugs, mental illness, depression. marijuana, teens, warning )

Mairead
- 546 days ago - efluxmedia.com
Marijuana is one of the world's most commonly used illegal drugs. There are approximately 300 million users worldwide and 28 million users in the United States alone. Marijuana comes from a plant called "Cannabis sativa." The chemical found in this pla
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Psychiatry's Prescription for Violence   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: Psychiatry, Drugs, suicide, death, CCHR, London, teens, pharmaceuticals, abuse, kids, ritalin, sedatives, medications )

Gregory
- 550 days ago - youtube.com
Hear what the experts have to say about some of the many tragic deaths that have occurred due to the prescription of psychotropic drugs.
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Help Teens Avoid Getting STDs
Health & Wellness  (tags: society, protection, risks, std, teens )

James
- 596 days ago - citizensvoice.com
The numbers are startling. At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease. That's more than 3 million teens.
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Mobile Phone Radiation Wrecks Your Sleep
Health & Wellness  (tags: technology, health, radiation, cancer, sleep, teens, children )


- 659 days ago - news.independent.co.uk
Phone makers' own scientists discover that bedtime use can lead to headaches, confusion and depression
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Secret ShameDo You Fear What Others Think of You? How Shame Can Hurt Your Health.
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, environment, family, society, children, teens )

Suzybell
- 669 days ago - webmd.com
.Lisa would watch us with moist eyes from the classroom window during recess. Born with rheumatoid arthritis, she wore leg splints until the eleventh grade, at which point the splints came off,throughout adolescence she woke up depressed, pleading
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HEALTH: Working Teens More Likely to Smoke
Health & Wellness  (tags: teens, smoking, health, research, study, humans )

Danielle
- 748 days ago - dailytimes.com.pk
High school students who work at jobs for pay appear to be more likely to start smoking than their peers who don't work outside of school, researchers reported. They also found that youths who work longer hours are more likely to smoke that those who work
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Drug-Resistant Staph Killed More Americans Than AIDS in 2005
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, disease, teens, high schools, illness, staph infection, death, schools closed, prevention, drug resistant )

Jennie
- 751 days ago - ens-newswire.com
Officials closed all 21 schools in Bedford County, Virginia for disinfection Wednesday after a high school student died of a staph infection. Ashton Bonds, 17, Staunton River High School senior, died Monday after being hospitalized for over a week.
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Bacteria That Killed Virginia Teen Found in Other Schools
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, bacteria, children, schools, teens, death, humans, illness )


- 753 days ago - cnn.com
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Students at a high school in Virginia prepared Thursday for the funeral of a popular classmate, the victim of a deadly drug-resistant strain of bacteria that has turned up in schools across the country recently. It's called MRSA, short
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Buyer Beware Boot Camps, Investigator Says - CBS News
Health & Wellness  (tags: treatment programs, teens, risks, abuse )


- 759 days ago - cbsnews.com
Congressional Study Of Youth Treatment Programs Shows Much More Oversight Is Needed
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With Children, Heart Attacks Often Mistaken,Not Diagnosed as Such.
Health & Wellness  (tags: teens, heart attack, s/s, children, health, disease, risk, treatment )

Patricia
- 769 days ago - ohio.com
A teenager showing classic signs of a heart attack pain in the center of the chest under the sternum, along with pain in the jaw, neck or arms should be given an EKG and cardiac enzyme tests.
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'One in 10 Girls Has STD Linked to Cancer By 16'
Health & Wellness  (tags: teens, health, girls, virus, human, sexually transmitted disease, HPV, cancer, risk )

Eduardo
- 780 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
At least one in 10 teenage girls is carrying a sexually-transmitted disease which could give them cancer. By the age of 18, around 20% of girls will have contracted the virus, while by the age of 24, 40% will have done so.
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Teenagers First Generation Less Healthy Than Parents
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, health, diet, exercise, food, nutrition, teens )

Ali
- 946 days ago - news.com.au
TODAY'S teenagers are the first generation whose health is worse than their parents, Victorian doctors have revealed. They say the so-called Peter Pan generation - teens who live at home longer - are suffering a health crisis
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