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A skills-building program offered as part of high school health classes may help prevent obesity, depression and drinking among teenagers, a new study suggests."Our hope is that schools after seeing these outcomes will say, ‘Hey, we want to implement this in our curriculum,'" Bernadette Melnyk, from The Ohio State University in Columbus, told Reuters Health."We're talking about 15 hours in a high schooler's education that can have some pretty profound positive (outcomes)."Melnyk developed the COPE (Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment) Healthy Lifestyles TEEN (Thinking, Emotions, Exercise, Nutrition) program, and is the lead author of the new study.One-third of young people in the U.S. are overweight or obese, she and her team note. Obese teens are at higher risk of depression and are more likely to perform poorly in school.However, most programs targeting youth obesity don't also address mental health, Melnyk said."Unless we change the way that people are thinking, there's ...
A Maine middle school is poised to become the first in the state to offer birth control prescriptions to students through its student health center.The Portland Scho...
Ukrainian prosecutors have ordered a senior health official detained on suspicion of illegally importing millions of doses of a vaccine that they charge caused a tee...
By the tens of thousands, Texas student-athletes have been pulled out of class to urinate in a cup for the nation's largest high school steroids testing program.Boys...
Where a teenage girl sees herself on her school's social ladder may sway her future weight, a study of more than 4,000 girls finds. Those who believed they were unpo...
Facebook, MySpace and other social networking Web sites are rewiring children's brains making them more self-centered and reducing their attention spans, a neuroscie...
Spending a lot of time watching TV, playing video games and surfing the Web makes children more prone to a range of health problems including obesity and smoking, U....
Dianne Neely has no official way to complain about an intrusive " Teen Questionnaire " that a pediatrician gave to her 13-year-old daughter, Amanda, without parental...
Parents of school children in Seattle are learning a shocking lesson, when it comes to some very important decisions they don’t have a say. The mother of a 15-year o...
The mother of a 15-year old Seattle girl is furious because her daughter had an abortion with some assistance from the nurses at her school and she was never informe...
As an adult, I can understand and rationalize double standards. When I’m told not to drive and talk on my phone, I can see that it is being done for my own good, eve...
Study: Medicine Highs on Rise Among TeensThursday, December 21, 2006E-Mail Print Share:WASHINGTON — Teens increasingly are getting high with legal drugs like paink...
Schools should teach teens, tweens about abuseTuesday, July 08, 2008By NATASHA T. METZLER, Associated Press WriterE-Mail Print Share:WASHINGTON — Schools should edu...
TV, movies, video games, and Internet use have serious consequences for children's health, according to a wide-ranging series of studies published in the April issue...
Teen sexting of nude photos online or via cellphone may be far less common than people think, new research suggests.Only 1 percent of kids aged 10 to 17 have shared ...
The teen pregnancy rate is up for the first time since 1991, while the percentage of teens who smoke has hit a 10-year low, according to a report released Friday by ...
Among all my endeavors as a parent of teenagers, understanding their affairs of the heart has been the most baffling. Mostly, my approach has been, "Hands off."New r...
As social networking Internet sites like MySpace.com continue to grow in popularity, parents need to take steps to ensure their children's safety, experts said Thurs...
Stephen Wallace hopped off an elliptical machine and got a pep talk from his personal trainer about his bench-press goals. Wiping away sweat, he said social commitme...
In a reversal of past trends, teenage girls are trying marijuana , alcohol and cigarettes at higher rates than boys, the White House drug czar said Thursday.The find...
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