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Obstetrician-gynecologists, in particular, should screen their patients routinely for intimate partner violence and sexual coercion and be prepared to discuss it. (Photo: Pixabay)

Encourage teens to discuss relationships, experts say

Healthcare providers and parents should discuss key aspects of healthy relationship, including respect, communication and value of health.

08 Nov 2018 8:56 AM

Study stressed that they had not proved the link and that more studies were needed before women should alter their diets. (Photo: Pixabay)

Eating pasta during pregnancy doubles risk of kids getting Type 1 diabetes as teens

Study found more gluten women ate during pregnancy, higher chance their child would develop condition by age of 16.

20 Sep 2018 1:46 PM

The findings have ramifications for parents, schools, technology companies and pediatricians concerned that tech-dependent teens are driven to distraction or worse. (Photo: PIxabay)

Smartphone use may increase risk of ADHD in teens

ADHD is a brain disorder with symptoms that include a pattern of inattention, hyperactive behaviour and impulsiveness.

19 Jul 2018 8:37 AM

Parents need to teach children to make sleep a priority and help them develop a good bedtime routine. (Photo: Pixabay)

Teenagers' lack of sleep tied to high blood pressure, more body fat

Longer sleep and higher sleep efficiency associated with lower blood pressure, less fat mass, and low cholesterol levels.

16 Jun 2018 11:25 AM

Teenage boys who used the apps were more likely seek out important sexual health services, such as HIV testing, the study found.

More than half of gay males on hookup apps are underage

Study is first known research to document gay and bisexual teenage boys use sex and dating apps designed for adult men to find partners.

29 May 2018 9:11 AM

After Alyssa persuades James to leave the neighbourhood, they stumble upon a lot of trouble, and end up breaking into the house of a serial killer.

End of the Fucking World

Both, seventeen, are in conflict with their own thoughts.

26 May 2018 12:34 AM

Study suggests that insomnia and evening chronotype are independently associated with these outcomes.

Teens who stay up till late night more prone to emotional and behavioural issues

Night owls 88 per cent more likely to have emotional, behavioral problems and 25 per cent more likely to have poor mental health.

17 May 2018 9:20 AM

When adolescents lose weight, they might have adjustment problems because they haven’t been socially accepted by their peers before. (Photo: Pixabay)

Some teens may have mental health issues after weight-loss surgery

Study find after two years, roughly one in three kids had some mental health problem, such as depression, anxiety or behavioural disorders.

12 May 2018 8:44 AM

The victim told the police that when she fell unconscious, the driver poured some water into her mouth. They also threatened to kill her if she told anyone about the gangrape, said the police. (Representational image)

Girl waiting for bus gangraped by four men

The woman also told the police the name of one of the men they were calling out during the assault.

04 May 2018 4:41 AM

Poisonings among kids under six years old surged from 2012 to 2015, when more than 10 children in every 100,000 in the population ingested liquid nicotine, the study found. (Photo: Pixabay)

Vaping tied to higher risk that teens will try marijuana, says study

Teens who use e-cigarettes may be twice as likely to smoke pot as their peers who never try vaping

24 Apr 2018 7:56 AM

This photo from remote camera video provided by the Los Angeles Department of Sanitation shows where 13-year-old Jesse Hernandez traced an arc with his fingers, the small arc at center left, as he was swept through a 4-foot diameter pipe after falling into a hole in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, Monday, April 2, 2018. Hernandez spent more than 12 hours in the toxic environment of the sewer system before being rescued. (Photo: AP)

Teenage boy rescued after being lost for 12 hours in Los Angeles sewage

Jesse Hernandez had been playing with other children on wooden planks when he fell about 25 feet and landed in fast-moving sewage.

03 Apr 2018 11:39 AM

It is important to ensure those accused of crimes have the capacity and freedom to make sensible decisions about whether to plead guilty. (Photo: PIXABAY)

Youngsters more likely to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit: study

Teenagers were significantly less influenced in their decision-making by whether they were guilty or innocent than adults were.

16 Mar 2018 1:41 PM

Her parents admitted to taking drugs, including crystal meth, marijuana and street drug K2. (Representational Image/ Pixabay)

Teen parents jailed after they let rats gnaw their newborn baby

Baby had rodent bites all over her arms, fingers, hands and face, including an inch-long cut on her forehead.

03 Feb 2018 4:28 PM

At a youth court in Poole, a judge heard how the boy's mother reported her own son to police after she caught him in the act with the schoolboy. (Representational image)

Youngster caught by mum raping friend, handed over to police

Woman catches her son performing sex act on crying 14-year boy, he admits raping girl, 11, in alley as well.

02 Feb 2018 4:54 PM

The rare condition sees white blood cells build up in the lining of the tube con necting the mouth and stomach, which can lead to tearing and choking. (Representational Image/ Pixabay)

Teenager has throat ripped open by sandwich he ate

Youngster from Missouri spends 106 days in hospital after being diagnosed with eosinophilic esophagitis.

18 Jan 2018 2:00 PM

CCTV footage showed them later burning their clothes in a park to hide the evidence. (Representational Image)

2 teens kill homeless man with cleaver 'because it was funny'

Both of them were found guilty of manslaughter but neither was in the dock to hear the verdicts after refusing to leave their prison cells.

13 Jan 2018 6:15 PM

While the virus killed his two siblings – Lucas, 17, and Miria, 10, within weeks of each other after it took hold, he miraculously has been saved. (Representational Image/ Pixabay)

Brazilian teen with rabies becomes 5th person in world to be cured of deadly disease

He is second person in Brazil to be cured of rabies, after Recife-based Marciano Menezes was saved in 2009

13 Jan 2018 5:24 PM

The full circumstances of the teenager’s death were not immediately clear as detectives continued to search for the gun that killed her. (Photo: Pixabay)

Teen girl shot dead in game of Russian roulette

Palloma Lima died shortly after being abandoned while she was critically injured, at hospital in Gama near Brasilia.

10 Jan 2018 4:02 PM

Adverse childhood events included such things as being physically forced to have sex with someone, or being beaten, kicked or physically hurt by an adult.

Childhood trauma from teenage sexual identity linked to suicidal behaviours

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults.

19 Dec 2017 8:21 AM

Using the Framingham Risk Score, the researchers connected age of first birth to risk for cardiovascular disease. (Photo: Pixabay)

Teenage mothers are at a higher risk of diseases later in their life, says study

Research shows women who became first-time moms in their teens have greater risks for heart disease and blood vessel disease.

02 Nov 2017 11:08 AM

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