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  Preemptive Treatment of Severe Morning Sickness Decreases Suffering for Moms-to-Be

  February 11, 2013 — Preemptive treatment effective for hyperemesis gravidarum and severe morning ... > full story
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  Around 1 in 10 Young Mentally Ill Teens Drinks, Smokes, and Uses Cannabis, Australian Research Finds

  February 4, 2013 — Around one in ten young teens with mental health issues also drinks alcohol, smokes cigarettes, and uses cannabis on a weekly basis, indicates Australian ... > full story
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  Caring Friends Can Save the World

  February 1, 2013 — New research shows that caring in friendships stands between apathy and activism, and is directly related to a teen's concern with making a ... > full story
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  Obesity May Increase Risk of Multiple Sclerosis in Children and Teens

  January 30, 2013 — Being obese may increase the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) in children and teenage girls, according to new ... > full story
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  Peer Pressure Trumps 'Thin' Ideals in the Media

  January 30, 2013 — Peers exert a greater influence on teenage girls' dissatisfaction with their bodies than do thin ideals in television or social media use, according to new ... > full story
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  Best Friends Influence When Teenagers Have First Drink

  January 28, 2013 — Researchers have found that teenagers who exhibit problem drinking likely got their first drink from a friend. The reason, the researchers explain, is that friends who drink are more likely to have ... > full story
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  Penicillin, Not the Pill, May Have Launched the Sexual Revolution

  January 28, 2013 — The rise in risky, non-traditional sexual relations that marked the swinging '60s and advent of readily available contraception actually began as much as a decade earlier, during the conformist '50s, ... > full story
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  Alcohol Use from Adolescence to Adulthood Follows Different, Complex Pathways

  January 22, 2013 — Adolescence is often a time of novelty seeking and risk taking, including the initiation of drinking. Other risk factors are also involved in trajectories of alcohol use that may develop over time. A ... > full story
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  Lower Drinking Ages Can Have an Impact on Later Drinking Patterns

  January 22, 2013 — Lower minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) laws have been associated with short-term effects such as more traffic fatalities and teen suicides. A new study has investigated the long-term and persistent ... > full story
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  Bariatric Surgery in Extremely Obese Adolescents

  January 22, 2013 — Bariatric surgery in extremely obese adolescents was shown to be beneficial in helping to reverse previously undiagnosed cardiovascular abnormalities believed to be linked to severe ... > full story

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