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Black girls who abuse alcohol less likely to use condoms
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Black girls who abuse alcohol are more likely to have unprotected sex despite having participated in interventions that stressed the importance of consistent condom use.
Black girls who use marijuana engage in riskier sex, have higher STD rate
Aug 05, 2008 |
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Black girls who use marijuana are more likely to engage in risky sexual acts and contract a sexually transmitted disease, a new study finds.
Black girls are 50 percent more likely to be bulimic than white girls
Mar 18, 2009 |
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An important new study challenges the widespread perception that bulimia primarily affects privileged, white teenagers such as "Gossip Girl" character Blair Waldorf, who battled bulimia on the show earlier this season.
Serious school failure turns out to be a real bummer for girls, but not boys
Jul 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure by the 12th grade -- being expelled, suspended or dropping out -- were significantly more likely to have suffered a serious bout of depression at the age ...
Urine protein may be present before hypertension diagnosis in at-risk adolescents
Feb 27, 2008 |
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A protein that is an early indicator of kidney dysfunction in adults may predict hypertension in black adolescents, Medical College of Georgia researchers have found.
Ethnic pride key to black teen mental health
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Ethnic pride may be as important as self-esteem to the mental health of young African-American adolescents, according to a new study in the Nov/Dec issue of the journal Child Development.
Black women in the U.S. appear to be shrinking, data show
Dec 26, 2008 |
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Call her The Incredible Shrinking African-American Woman. In an age when the adult populations of most industrialized nations have grown significantly taller, the average height of black women in the U.S. has been receding, ...
Microsoft says some Windows PCs get 'Black Screen'
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says it's not to blame for a problem that is causing a "limited" number of Windows computers to boot up to a blank black screen.
Paradoxically, food insecurity may be underlying contributor to overweight
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Both household food insecurity (HFInsec) and childhood overweight are significant problems in the United States. Paradoxically, being food-insecure may be an underlying contributor to being overweight. A study of almost ...
Parental guidelilnes, consequences may be why fewer black teens smoke than whites
May 14, 2009 |
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It's a curious paradox. Black adults are more likely to smoke than white adults and most smokers start as teenagers. But statistics show that fewer black youths than whites begin smoking as adolescents.
Growing HIV Infection Rate Among Females Is Cause for Grave Concern
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 10, 2009 |
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HIV/AIDS statistics for women and girls are startling.
Study: Common wisdom about troubled youth falls apart when race considered
Jul 21, 2008 |
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One of the most widely accepted beliefs about the differences between troubled boys and girls may need to be revised, according to new research.
Prevalence of obesity among US children and teens does not increase
May 27, 2008 |
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There was no significant increase in the prevalence of obese children and teens in the U.S. between 1999 and 2006, in contrast to the increase that had been reported in prior years, according to a study in the May 28 issue ...
Black Friday LCD-TV prices down 22 pct, sales up
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A research firm says decisive price cuts are helping sales of LCD flat panel TVs rise after Thanksgiving.
Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970.
