Cancer doesn't change young girl's desire to have children
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that healthy adolescent females have predetermined expectations for becoming parents in the future, but have concerns about fertility and childbearing should they develop a life-threatening...
Healthcare standards for incarcerated adolescents
Australia’s largest specialist medical college is calling for a significant shift in the engagement with adolescents in the juvenile setting, a marginalised group often beyond the reach of traditional health services, ahead of the...
Short bouts of exercise boost self control
Short bouts of moderately intense exercise seem to boost self control, indicates an analysis of the published evidence in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The resulting increased blood and oxygen flow to the pre-frontal...
Why some teens get pimples
The bacteria that cause acne live on everyone’s skin, yet one in five people is lucky enough to develop only an occasional pimple over a lifetime. What’s the secret?
In a boon for teenagers everywhere,...
Double-jointed adolescents at risk for joint pain
A prospective study by U.K. researchers found that adolescents who are double-jointed—medically termed joint hypermobility—are at greater risk for developing musculoskeletal pain as they get older, particularly in the shoulders, knees, ankles and feet....
Children more exposed to alcohol promotion than adults
Children in Britain are more exposed to alcohol promotion than adults and need much stronger protection, warn experts.
In an editorial to coincide with publication of the UK’s first independent alcohol strategy, Professor Gerard Hastings...
Volunteer adolescents enjoy healthier hearts
Giving back through volunteering is good for your heart, even at a young age, according to University of British Columbia researchers.
For their study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, researchers from UBC’s Faculty of...
Sleep reinforces learning
It is important for children to get enough sleep. Children’s brains transform subconsciously learned material into active knowledge while they sleep – even more effectively than adult brains do, according to a study by...
Intervention to reduce pregnancy risk among adolescent girls
More consistent use of condoms, oral contraception or both was reported by a group of teenage girls who took part in a youth development intervention aimed at reducing pregnancy risk in high-risk adolescents, according...
University success takes more than IQ
Academic achievement is as much about hope, self-regulation and curiosity as it is about intelligence, according to an expert from the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education.
As students start a new university year,...
