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The Ithacan
February 27, 2018
But if the former is about adulthood, the latter is about adolescence and all the sloppy side effects of young love. Luke O'Neil (Jahi Di'Allo Winston) is a freshly minted freshman at Boring High School. He's in love with Kate Messner (Peyton Kennedy) — the principal's daughter. But she's not in love with him,ÃÂ ...
Florida Trend
February 27, 2018
Earlier in his career, Peter Shaw, M.D., knew he was interested in making a lifelong difference for children struggling with cancer but didn't know where to focus his efforts. When discussing his thoughts with his mentor and division chief, they settled on a focus on adolescents and young adults with cancerÃÂ ...
MedPage Today
February 27, 2018
In their first update to depression guidelines in 10 years, the AAP endorsed "universal adolescent screening for depression in children ages 12 and over," which had already been recommended by the academy, stated Rachel A. Zuckerbrot, MD, of the AAP Guidelines for Adolescent GLAD-PC SteeringÃÂ ...
City Pages
February 27, 2018
Unlike Colin, who leans on his grandfather for guidance and support, Nathan didn't have a mentor as an adolescent. He believes adults often brush off adolescents' concerns and inner conflicts with flip comments like “Growing up is awful" or "It's get better” when what teens really need from adults isÃÂ ...
Kotaku
February 27, 2018
Everyone is familiar with Adolescence, those years of being a teenager. All the things that make these years memorable are the things that make it horrible. It's a confusing jumble of new experiences, confusing emotions, and a sudden desire to yell at your mom. What makes Adolescence “the worst” mayÃÂ ...
Healio
February 26, 2018
The guidelines are intended for identifying and assisting adolescents aged between 10 and 21 years, an age range in which individuals may be considered developmentally adolescent, and were developed for primary care clinicians. For those aged between 18 and 21 years, Zuckerbrot and colleaguesÃÂ ...
Suburban Life Publications
February 24, 2018
Sponsored by Helping Girls Navigate Adolescence, the daylong event gives girls in grades 4 through 6 an opportunity to participate in workshops designed to help them ... The need to fit into social groups is important for adolescent girls, and changing friend groups can be a tough transition, Young said.
NDTV
February 24, 2018
Alcohol Drinking In Adolescence May Associated With Liver Diseases In Men Later: Study. According to a study published in the Journal of Hepatology, men who binge-drink in late adolescence are more likely to develop liver disease decades later than young people who don't drink at all. Food | NDTVÃÂ ...
News-Medical.net
February 24, 2018
Bottom Line: Ninety-four percent of adolescents ages 13 to 19 in an economically disadvantaged, largely minority population in San Francisco had measurable levels of a biomarker specific for exposure to tobacco smoke (NNAL). Journal in Which the Study Was Published: Cancer Epidemiology,ÃÂ ...
Watertown Public Opinion
February 23, 2018
As children move from adolescence to young adulthood, they encounter dramatic physical, emotional and lifestyle changes. Developmental transitions, such as puberty and increasing independence, have been associated with alcohol use. So in a sense, just being an adolescent may be a key risk factor,ÃÂ ...
Science Daily
February 23, 2018
In a prior study, Benowitz and colleagues showed that 87 percent of adolescents in an economically disadvantaged population had evidence of exposure to nicotine, as defined by the presence of cotinine in urine samples. In this study, they set out to assess tobacco smoke exposure in this population byÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
February 23, 2018
Far more affection than angst figures in the adolescent wasteland where the eighteen-year-old photographer Colin Combs portrays his friends, most of them high-school seniors from Dayton, Ohio. Combs's home town is sometimes called the heroin capital of the United States. His mother, a respiratoryÃÂ ...
Nature.com
February 22, 2018
Without a good definition of what adolescence is, it's difficult to nail down what protections and responsibilities adolescents should have. The debate is taking on more urgency as researchers have realized that adolescence helps to set the trajectory for adult life, and as judges and doctors try to fixÃÂ ...
Nature.com
February 22, 2018
Neuroscience is revealing adolescents' rich and nuanced relationship with risky behaviour. ... Adolescence is a perilous period. .... “Most of what we know about adolescent risk-taking is actually derived from relatively normative samples,” says Telzer, “not adolescents engaging in high levels of risk-takingÃÂ ...
Nature.com
February 21, 2018
It's widely accepted that adolescents are misunderstood. Less well known is how far we still have to go to understand adolescence itself. One problem is that it is hard to characterize: the concept of puberty does not capture the decade or more of transformative physical, neural, cognitive and socio-emotional growth that aÃÂ ...
News Deeply
February 19, 2018
One particular concern is the nutritional health of adolescent girls. Once they leave infancy, girls have little interaction with the health system. “The next big thing that would help nutrition is focus on adolescents,” she says. Tackling this issue and bridging the gap will require the nutrition community to rethinkÃÂ ...
The Hindu
February 19, 2018
“We believe the results from this novel trial design will provide significant scientific benefit to the field in understanding TB infection, and based on this positive signal, we look forward to testing the potential of such vaccines to prevent TB disease among uninfected adolescents in a larger, more traditionalÃÂ ...
Odessa American
February 19, 2018
These needs are a necessity for the adolescents' pathway and entrance into adulthood. To become capable adults, teens will need to learn how to make moral and accurate decisions on their own. The adolescent and parent relationship may become strained as the adolescent grows and continue to resistÃÂ ...
FIU News
February 19, 2018
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released an unparalleled dataset from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD study) — the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States. Approximately 30 terabytes of data — about three times the size of theÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
February 19, 2018
This paper takes stock of legal and policy frameworks for adolescents in the eight countries of South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Around 340 million adolescents live in the region – more than in any other region in the world – with India home to theÃÂ ...
CBS Philly
February 18, 2018
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — More adolescents are getting the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine. But a report from Independence Blue Cross shows that, despite the rise, HPV vaccination lags behind other adolescent vaccines in the Philadelphia region. In the Philadelphia area, less than half of all children 11ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 18, 2018
In the conversations that have ushered in its theatrical release, Lady Bird has been described as Greta Gerwig's directorial debut. Yet, with seven screenplays to her name and a co-director credit on Joe Swanberg's 2008 mumblecore drama Nights and Weekends, it's not as though she is new to makingÃÂ ...
Press & Sun-Bulletin
February 17, 2018
There are lots of ways that the growth of children and adolescents may be affected. As I mentioned, not enough good food in the diet can slow growth, and various illnesses may have the same effect. Children in poor countries may not only grow slowly, but they may have a very late adolescence (to begin atÃÂ ...
Stripes Okinawa
February 17, 2018
The training -- the first of its kind in Installation Management Command-Europe -- is a collaborative effort of community professionals to include the garrison Army Substance Abuse Program and Civilian Misconduct offices, Ramstein and Kaiserslautern Adolescent Support and Counseling Services and U.S.ÃÂ ...
Paste Magazine
February 17, 2018
Adolescent years are awkward, embarrassing and full of wanting your independence but not quite being ready for it. ... can either be props with no life of their own who mysteriously disappear after they've overstayed their welcome or far too much part of the drama, acting more like adolescents themselves.
The Good Men Project (blog)
February 16, 2018
Neuroscience evidence has seemed to bolster the case that adolescents are just wired to make bad decisions. Studies suggest that brain regions associated with self-control and long-term planning, such as the prefrontal cortex, are still developing. At the same time, adolescence is a time of increasedÃÂ ...
whnt.com
February 16, 2018
Adolescent mental health care needs in North Alabama far exceed available space ... Amy Gillott, director of the Decatur Morgan West Hospital, said the facility's adolescent unit stays full. ... “We often have two to three adolescents that are waiting in an ER somewhere, waiting on a bed to come available.”.
Medical Xpress
February 16, 2018
Motor vehicle crash rates for adolescents are highest during the transition from permit holder to licensed driver. ... prior to taking the license test might be protected from future motor vehicle crashes, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Diabetes.co.uk
February 15, 2018
Adolescents with type 1 diabetes who have limited access to nutritional and healthy foods are more likely to have poor blood sugar control, according to US research. Those with ... Overall, the prevalence of FI among the adolescents was 19%, higher than the US national prevalence of 12.7%. A total ofÃÂ ...
American Council on Science and Health
February 15, 2018
The latter never registered and I had done the preparation. Since technically - due to brain chemistry and the like - adolescence continues into your mid-twenties, I was not missing my pediatric Board-certifying examination over fever and a raging sinusitis. After all, it was only offered once a year, was veryÃÂ ...
Noozhawk
February 14, 2018
To help protect adolescents against dangerous diseases, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department is joining with the California Department of Public Health in recognizing Feb. 11-17 as Preteen Vaccine Week. Vaccines offer safe and effective protection from infectious diseases, the HealthÃÂ ...
The Denver Post
February 14, 2018
When adolescents rule the Olympics, F-bombs spontaneously erupt on national television. Authority, like gravity, is often ignored. Everything, from the fireworks at opening ceremonies to the freezing weather, is described as “insane.” During competition, athletes get hangry instead of nervous. And we'll getÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 14, 2018
Adolescents have their reasons for vaping. Some do it for the thrill of defying authority, often in view of their peers. Compact vaporizers like Juuls, which look like flash drives, allow teenagers to easily conceal their e-cigarettes and take quick, discreet hits at home, in school hallways and even in class.
UNFPA News
February 13, 2018
“We see can see this in the statistic of adolescents who become pregnant,” says Wassana Im-Em, UNFPA's Assistant Representative in Thailand. “From the data, we know that it is the two poorest quintiles, the poorest 40 per cent, which have the highest rate.” These teens are more likely to lack access toÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
January 25, 2018
This evidence gap map (EGM) collates the evidence base for adolescent interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with a focus on the outcome domains of protection, participation and financial and material well-being. Outcomes relating to the enabling environment for adolescents areÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
January 25, 2018
Young girls in Zimbabwe face death risk during childbirth or contracting diseases due to inconsistent laws making it difficult for teenagers to access sexual-health reproductive services, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday. The rights watchdog said adolescent girls below the age of 16ÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
January 25, 2018
Adolescence is a critical developmental phase of life, a time during which children acquire the social skills they need to thrive as adults. ... together experts in adolescent neuroscience to discuss this emerging science and how we can apply it to support all adolescents – but especially those already facingÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
January 25, 2018
The report found that entrenched taboos around adolescent sexuality, and a lack of affordable healthcare, are also making it harder for adolescents to access the information and services they need. According to demographic health data for Zimbabwe, nearly 40% of girls and 24% of boys are sexuallyÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
January 23, 2018
"What does this mean in terms of the policies that we should be putting in place to maximize the acquisition of assets that young people should be gaining across the adolescent years?" she said,. "This is what this period of adolescence should be about, I believe." She points to changes in governmentÃÂ ...
AdAge.com (blog)
January 23, 2018
Ramaa Mosley directed her first commercial when she was 16 years old. It was for Naked Juice, before the brand was bought by Pepsico in 2007. Since then, Mosley began mentoring young directors and came to the concluson that the work they were doing was much more relevant to the youth market thanÃÂ ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
January 23, 2018
Adolescence is thought to end at about age 18, but a group of scientists wants to extend it to 24, according to a new report. ... research institutions Australia recently conducted an experiment, published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, to determine the span of years that should define adolescence.
Telegraph.co.uk
January 22, 2018
Despite the delightful protestations of Martina Von Trapp, hitting 17 did not have me feeling as if I was on the brink of anything other than abject failure in my AS-levels and another outbreak of zits. Now, neither did the ages of 18 or 21. But I will be hitting 24 in two weeks time, that ripe old age when youÃÂ ...
Medical Xpress
January 22, 2018
A small group of researchers with the Royal Children's Hospital in Australia is suggesting that it might be time to change the span of years that define adolescence—from the current 10 to 19 to a proposed 10 to 24 years of age. In their paper published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, the groupÃÂ ...
The Verge
January 21, 2018
Thinking of adolescence as lasting until age 24 “corresponds more closely” to how the lives of young people today work, writes an expert in adolescent health. Compared to earlier generations, youth today are staying in school longer, marrying and having kids later, and buying a house later, writes SusanÃÂ ...
Clinical Advisor
January 19, 2018
The task force found adequate evidence that treatment with bracing may decrease curvature progression in adolescents with mild or moderate curvature severity (an intermediate outcome). However, it found inadequate evidence on the association between reduction in spinal curvature in adolescence andÃÂ ...
UB News Center
January 19, 2018
Ryan M. Rish can speak to the media about literacy among adolescents. He can discuss how literacy practices are supported in institutions, social spaces and geographic places in different ways that shape how adolescents compose with writing and other multimodal forms of communication. Rish is interested inÃÂ ...
BBC News
January 19, 2018
Young people continuing their education for longer, as well as delayed marriage and parenthood, has pushed back popular perceptions of when adulthood begins. And changing the definition is vital to ensure laws and government policy stay appropriate, they say in the Lancet Child & Adolescent HealthÃÂ ...
Crunchyroll News
January 18, 2018
They say that one person's trash is another person's treasure, but when it comes to anime sometimes it's helpful to know if digging for a ruby in a mountain of rocks is worth the effort. “Cruising the Crunchy-Catalog” is here to help. Each week we provide additional info and cultural context to help anime fansÃÂ ...
EARMILK (blog)
January 17, 2018
“Mutations” follows an adolescent boy on his journey through his day. Played by Nathan Leppky, our young protagonist wakes up to find a note from mom asking him to do the dishes and get a haircut. You know, typical mom chores. As any teenager would do, he ignores the dishes and instead spends hisÃÂ ...
Harvard Gazette
January 17, 2018
Study finds humanitarian intervention reduces 'stress hormone' in war-affected adolescents ... They analyzed the hair cortisol as a marker of within- and between-person variation in adolescent responses to past trauma and current threats to well-being, in response to a brief intervention. Through this studyÃÂ ...
