News tagged with youth
Alcohol companies target youths with magazine ads, new study shows
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Alcoholic beverages popular among youths are more likely to be advertised in magazines with high youth readership than alcoholic drinks consumed mainly by adults, resulting in disproportionately high youth exposure to such ...
Most runaway teens return home with help of family ties, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Runaways who maintain contact with pro-social peers and have parental support, especially from their mothers, tend to return home.
Video games linked to poor relationships with friends, family
Jan 23, 2009 |
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A new study connects young adults' use of video games to poorer relationships with friends and family - and the student co-author expresses disappointment at his own findings.
Researchers seek to create 'fountain of youth'
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The same principles that a Biodesign Institute research team has successfully applied to remove harmful contaminants from the environment may one day allow people to clean up the gunk from ...
Bullies may enjoy seeing others in pain
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 07, 2008 |
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Unusually aggressive youth may actually enjoy inflicting pain on others, research using brain scans at the University of Chicago shows.
May You Stay Forever Young
May 27, 2009 |
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Before plastic surgery and botox, an ancient culture had a different way of dealing with the quest for eternal youth. Why not simply live forever? In medieval China, third century B.C., people believed it ...
Study: Genetic risk for substance use can be neutralized by good parenting
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 10, 2009 |
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A genetic risk factor that increases the likelihood that youth will engage in substance use can be neutralized by high levels of involved and supportive parenting, according to a new University of Georgia study.
Perceptions and experiences of homeless youth vary by race, study shows
Jan 29, 2009 |
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The self-perceptions and life experiences of young homeless people vary significantly by race, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. The findings underscore the need for ...
Samsung Introduces Corby -- Touchscreen Mobile Phone for Youth
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Samsung Electronics today announced the availability of Samsung Corby (model: S3650), a mobile phone designed to support the digitally connected lifestyles of today’s young mobile users.
Mom and dad as financial advisors
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Why are so many students deep in debt before they finish college, only to take on more debt as they begin their careers? The answer may be found by looking at the social forces that shape the attitudes and behaviors of today's ...
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, ...
Delinquent acts less likely for youths from religious-centered, two-parent homes
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A committed two-adult household with strong religious values may reduce the likelihood that youths will commit acts such as assault, vandalism and theft throughout adolescence and into early adulthood, says ...
Arts good for the psyche
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Youth who do arts are psychologically better off than those who do not, a new study from Victoria University shows.
Government services for young people at risk of drugs misuse may be doing more harm than good
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Current government programmes aimed at reducing drug and alcohol use among young people may be ineffective and may even be doing more harm than good, according to a paper published today in Public Policy Research, the qu ...
Smoking prevention campaign saving billions in smoking-related care
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the American Legacy Foundation have estimated that truth®, the nations' largest youth smoking prevention campaign, saved $1.9 billion or more in health ...
