ATLANTA (AP) -- About one in four teen girls last year got the groundbreaking vaccine that prevents cervical cancer, federal health officials reported Thursday....
... study at Johns Hopkins Children's Center found that girls diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID ... video, produced by Hopkins Children's, shows teen girls diagnosed with PID coping with various ...
... their parents to conform to gender stereotypes were also more likely to perceive sexism. Girls who felt atypical for their gender and/or were unhappy with stereotypical gender roles were most likely ...
About 3 percent of 12- to 17-year-old girls are physically or sexually assaulted by a boyfriend or date, a U.S. study suggests.
... that might otherwise manifest as aggression."
Parental communication and knowledge may also protect girls from aggressive behavior, they continue. "By discussing difficult peer situations (e.g., ...
... that neighborhoods shape peer groups, which in turn influence when girls become sexually active."
Dupéré also found that teen girls from poor neighborhoods with a history of conduct problems ...
... rates of growth were dramatically higher among girls than boys. While boys still take ... slightly. This increase in antidepressant use among older teen girls was a striking exception to decreases for boys ...
... professor of psychiatry (research) at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. "We must teach teen girls and young women how to be assertive in sexual relationships, such ...
... high school restrooms, puffing their cigarettes? Well, here's consolation for the nerds in the crowd: Those teen smokers are more likely to experience obesity as adults, according to a new study from ...
... linked to cervical cancer. Additionally, a majority of teen girls, parents and young women in California ... 57 percent of parents of age-eligible girls reported an interest in getting the HPV vaccine ...
... higher. The study also showed that teen boys listen louder than teen girls, and teens who express the most concern about the risk for and severity of hearing loss from iPods actually play their music ...
... ? Brain scans of teens sizing each other up reveal an emotion circuit activating more in girls as they grow older, ... picture below).
Two weeks later, the teens viewed the same faces while in an fMRI ...
ATLANTA (AP) -- A new government report shows one in three teenage girls have rolled up their sleeves for a relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, but vaccination rates vary dramatically ...
... -taking behavior based on their ethnicity and actual or perceived weight.
Caucasian girls who believed that they were underweight, whether accurate or not, were more likely to have had sex and to ...
... were 40 percent more likely to be overweight at the time of the survey.
Another finding was that teen girls who had had their tonsils removed were 30 percent more likely to be overweight. Hoffman ...
