TEEN HEALTH

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• Dear Parents, Never Give Your Kids Energy Drink

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• Dec 08, 2014 07:40 PM EST

• Intake of energy drinks among children have caused an uproar to the medical community because of their high sugar and caffeine content.

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• Spending the Last Month of the Year with Self-Love

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• Dec 07, 2014 11:47 PM EST

• Psychologists and wellbeing experts believe that everything starts from self-love.

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• tongue, diagnosis, general medicine

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• Dec 07, 2014 05:47 PM EST

• tongue, diagnosis, medical test

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• Children with Anxiety Disorders Have Atypical Activity in Specific Brain Areas

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• Dec 06, 2014 11:56 PM EST

• Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

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• Media Smart Youth, A Program Designed to Help Young People Dissect Unhealthy Media Messages

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• Dec 06, 2014 11:44 PM EST

• According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, one-third of American children and adolescents between 2 to 19 years old are overweight or obese.

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• Move over therapy dogs, miniature therapy horses are here!

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• Dec 06, 2014 06:31 PM EST

• Miniature horses can offer comfort and affection to patients who are in the hospital.

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• Women who smoke are more likely to have painful periods.

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• Dec 06, 2014 06:24 PM EST

• Smoking, and starting to smoke at an early age, have been linked with a greater risk of having several menstrual cramps.

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• Teen Rescued, Found Weighing Only 40 Pounds Because of Abuse

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• Dec 07, 2014 08:00 AM EST

• Warning: this story may be graphic. A 15-year-old girl has just been rescued from her abusive grandparents. When she went out of her room, where she was confined for an unspecified length of time, she was only 40 pounds, with hardly any pulse, and dried feces …

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• School Connectedness an Important Protective Factor for the Youth— CDC and HHS

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• Dec 05, 2014 11:42 PM EST

• School connectedness is the belief by students that adults and peers in the school care about their learning as well as about them as individuals.

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• A blood chemical may allow doctors to find out who is more seriously injured after a concussion.

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• Dec 05, 2014 07:07 PM EST

• Some people develop serious and lasting problems after a concussion. A chemical in the blood may be able to predict who will have lasting problems and who will not.

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• Smoking Causes Men to Lose their Y Chromosome

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• Dec 05, 2014 06:59 PM EST

• Men who smoke are more likely to have lost the Y chromosome in their blood cells than are men who don't smoke. This mutation may increase their risk of developing and dying from cancer.

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• CDC Informs Public On Benefits Of Circumcision And Why It Should Be Done

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• Dec 04, 2014 10:36 PM EST

• CDC informs the public that the benefits of circumcision can outweigh its risks.