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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Thirty Percent of Teen Girls Report Meeting Offline With Someone They Met Online
January 14, 2013 — A new study highlights the risk that female teenagers face when they go online -- a risk heightened for teen girls who have been victims of abuse or neglect. The study shows that 30 percent of ... > full story -
Protective Communities May Reduce Risk of Drinking in Teens
January 9, 2013 — Living in a caring community may help curb teenage alcohol use, while hanging out with antisocial peers can have the opposite effect, according to researchers studying substance abuse ... > full story -
Americans Have Worse Health Than People in Other High-Income Countries
January 9, 2013 — On average, Americans die sooner and experience higher rates of disease and injury than people in other high-income ... > full story
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