News tagged with teen pregnancies
Childhood health disparities can have life-long health effects
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Research indicates that physical and mental stress in childhood may have life-long adverse health effects and policy initiatives are needed to emphasize the importance of starting health promotion and disease prevention early ...
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Teens are heading in wrong direction: Likely to have sex, but not use contraception
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Between 2003 and 2007, the progress made in the 1990s and early 2000s in improving teen contraceptive use and reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing stalled, and may even have reversed among certain groups of teens, according ...
Study may pave way for treatments to delay early multiple births
Jun 11, 2009 |
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A treatment that prevents premature births in single pregnancies may be ineffective in women expecting more than one child, a study has shown.
Depression linked to subsequent pregnancy in black teens
Mar 03, 2008 |
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African American adolescent mothers who have symptoms of depression may be more likely to have a subsequent pregnancy within two years of giving birth, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & ...
'DTXTR' translates teen text into English
May 27, 2009 |
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Wot r ur kids txting? If you're wondering -- or 1dering -- there's a new online translation tool that helps decipher the code.
Intervention reduces delinquent teenage pregancy rates
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A program aimed at reducing criminal behavior in juvenile justice teens has yielded a surprising side benefit. The program is also reducing the teens' rate of pregnancy, according to a new study out this week.
Study is first to link viewing of sexual content on TV to subsequent teen pregnancy
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Adolescents who have high levels of exposure to television programs that contain sexual content are twice as likely to be involved in a pregnancy over the following three years as their peers who watch few such shows, according ...
Teenage birth rates higher in more religious states
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Teen girls diagnosed with STI more likely to seek treatment for partners after watching video
Nov 05, 2009 |
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A study at Johns Hopkins Children's Center found that girls diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) who watched a short educational video were three times more likely to discuss their condition with their partners ...
Government-backed youth program pilot didn't reduce teenage pregnancies
Jul 08, 2009 |
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A government-backed youth development pilot programme in England, aimed at reducing teenage pregnancies, drunkenness or cannabis use, didn't reduce teenage pregnancies and other outcomes and might have increased pregnancies, ...
Developing Brains: Alcohol Worse than Marijuana
Mar 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It appears that when it comes to teen brain development, parents should be more worried about alcohol abuse than marijuana abuse. Two recent studies have been published showing that alcohol ...
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