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- 08-05 Problems parents face when they try to ensure that their teenagers and pre-teens stay safe.
- 08-05 East Sussex Youth Cabinet launches smoking campaign
- 08-05 US health research - The feasibility of using cell phones equipped with global positioning systems to track where 14- to 16-year-old girls spend their time
- 08-05 A supermarket has told cashiers not to supply alcohol if they suspect an adult is buying the drink for an underage youth.
- 08-05 A study of US high school students provides additional evidence that eating disorders may be contagious
- 08-05 Canadian children with healthy diets perform better in school than children with unhealthy diets
- 08-05 In the US, high levels of physical activity from ages 12 to 22 contribute most strongly to the lower breast cancer risk
- 08-05 Schools in England could be made to keep records of pupils' drug use and obesity under plans being considered.
- 08-05 Joint working across children's services is making young people feel safer, happier and more confident.
- 08-05 Young people's mental health in schools in Gloucester, USA
- 08-05 In the US, teenage marijuana use can worsen depression
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- 08-04 Areas of the brain associated with language work harder in girls than in boys during language tasks
- 08-04 Healthy weight, healthy lives: Guidance for local areas. In England a third of children are either overweight or obese, and without action this could rise to almost two-thirds of children by 2050.
- 08-04 Fit for girls - A new drive in Scotland to get teenage girls involved in physical activity
- 08-04 Asthma attacks became less common in Canadian children
- 08-04 27% of 8-11 year olds who are aware of social networking Internet sites (e.g. MySpace) say that they have an illegal profile on a site
- 08-04 Preventing the uptake of smoking by children: consultation on the draft guidance
- 08-04 In the US, gymnastics has one of the highest injury rates of all girls' sports.
- 08-04 Risky drinking in North West school children and its consequences: A study of fifteen and sixteen year olds
- 08-04 Seven per cent of young people in Liverpool have been bullied about their sexuality.
- 08-04 In the US, Dr Leonard Sax talks about his new book ' Boys Adrift: What's Really Behind the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys.'
- 08-04 'Safer children in a digital world' : The report of the Byron Review
- 08-04 New research reveals the scale of junk food temptation
- 08-04 New Canadian research dispels myth that cigarettes make teenage girls thinner
- 08-04 US teenagers and self image - happy and contented?
- 08-04 Young Australians need access to health services
- 08-04 Canadian teenagers spend average 30 hours TV and computer use per week
- 08-04 Another website ...
- 08-03 School-Based Obesity Interventions: A Literature Review
- 08-03 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children in Scotland
- 08-03 Sex education and falling rates of unintended pregnancy
- 08-03 Commonly held assumptions linking obesity in children to poor social conditions have been shattered by the results of a comprehensive Norfolk study
- 08-03 An average school child should eat less than half a teaspoon per day say the Irish Heart Foundation
- 08-03 'All Salted?' Reducing Salt Intake in Young Parents and Their Children.
- 08-03 Three-year research project hopes to identify the reasons that many 11 to 15-year-old girls avoid sports.
- 08-03 Viewing professional wrestling on television and engaging in violent and other health risk behaviors.
- 08-03 Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes
- 08-03 RNID has asked students from British universities to design earplugs for young people who love music, following the charity's own research finding that 90 per cent of young people have experienced the first signs of hearing damage after a night out.
- 08-03 Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? No
- 08-03 Dealing with conflict, anger and aggression (over 12s): Edinburgh workshops that explore strategies for communicating effectively with young people who display challenging behaviour
- 08-03 Tap water requires 300 times less energy than bottled water and does not create bottled packaging waste
- 08-03 Eating breakfast helps US teenagers lose weight
- 08-03 Stopping teenagers getting pregnant - Teens and Toddlers programme
- 08-03 Adolescent Health Project
- 08-03 ...very soon after that first cigarette, adolescents can experience a loss of autonomy over tobacco
- 08-03 Ugandan schoolgirls dreams of education held back by poverty, pregnancy and lack of privacy
- 08-03 Sex and Drugs and Rock and... Health is a new website dedicated to using social marketing and edutainment (entertainment/education) to tackle health inequalities and promote health services
- 08-03 The support needs of families in Australia who have, as a family member, a young person who is misusing substances.
- 08-03 Two-thirds of states in the US have no or weak school nutrition standards to limit junk food