| Tips For Protecting Your Teen Driver |
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Many American families are giving their teens vehicles before they head to college or join the working world. Auto insurance experts share safety and insurance tips to help protect your child behind the wheel.
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| The Oral Sex Myth |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - The story is shocking, but perhaps not unfamiliar. At a birthday party for a seventh-grader, the boy's mother had gone down to the basement only to find all the boys lined up along one wall. The girls, the mother reported, had been going down the line performing oral sex on them.
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| Help Make It A Safe Summer: Don't Serve Alcohol To Teens | |
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-A national campaign to reduce underage drinking is helping the nation understand that serving alcohol to teens is unsafe, illegal and irresponsible. "We Don't Serve Teens" focuses on the "social sources"--parents of other teens, older siblings and friends--from whom most teens who drink get their alcohol. |
| Cyberbullying: What to Do If It Happens to Your Teen | | (HealthNewsDigest.com) - SAN DIEGO, -- Cyberbullying, using the Internet, cell phones, or another type of communication technology to hurt or embarrass others, is an increasingly common problem among today's youth. In a recent study conducted by the National Crime Prevention Council and Harris Interactive Inc., more than 43% of teens ages 13-17 have experienced cyberbullying within the past year. |
| Teens, Tans and Truth |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Eighteen-year-old Libby Weldon of Canby, Ind., knows the must-haves for the perfect prom: a date willing to dance, a glamorous dress, strappy sandals, dangle earrings and, to set it all off, the golden glow of deeply tanned skin. At first, her parents objected to the tanning because of its link to skin cancer. Then her dad read an article on the health benefits of vitamin D, otherwise known as the "sunshine vitamin." Weldon, who hit the tanning bed 10 times in the two weeks before the big night, says, "They got used to the idea." (Photo: Naomi Harris for Newsweek)
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| Talking To Teens About Medicine Abuse |
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-There are ways parents can help prevent their teens from abusing prescription drugs--a dangerous situation thats more common than you might think.
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| Parents: Family Driving Contract Important For Your Teen |
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-Even after a teen has his or her driver's license, a parent's job isn't over. In fact, now it's even more important for parents to protect their young drivers who will be on the road alone for the first time.
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| Curbing Teen Drinking Difficult in Urban Areas | |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Keeping middle schoolers from alcohol is a tougher task in the inner city than in rural areas, even for experts armed with the best prevention programs, a new University of Florida study shows. |
| Arthritis in Teens Getting More Attention |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - COLUMBUS, Ohio Doctors are seeing an increasing number of patients with arthritis, and its not just limited to the older population. Its become much more common to see teenagers with the condition -- some requiring hip replacements before the age of 20.
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| Nations Leading Expert on Teen Dating and Sexual Etiquette to Speak in New York January 30 | |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - In todays teen dating climate, the fear of pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and date rape is fed constantly by advertising, concerned parents and public campaigns promoting abstinence. In the United States, 45.6 percent of high school students are sexually active,[1] but most are not getting the education and support they need to approach sexuality with understanding and respect. |
| Boarding School for Overweight Teens |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - BREVARD, N.C. and REEDLEY, Calif. (January 21, 2008) Academy of the Sierras (AOS), the worlds first boarding school for overweight children and teens, start a new year at the California and North Carolina campuses today. The two programs remain the only year-round boarding schools for weight loss in the world.
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