Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a common  serious long-term mental health condition that affects 5 in 1000 in the UK. It causes a range of different psychological symptoms; hallucinations, delusions, muddled...

Eczema

Eczema is a common itchy skin disease characterized by reddening and vesicle formation, which may lead to weeping and crusting. It is endogenous, or constitutional. There are five main types; atopic...

Football coaching should be tailored for teenage brains, research says

Creating the next generation of football stars may be down to understanding the teenage brain, according to new research from the University of Bristol. The study, published in the FA [Football Associ...

Teenage pregnancy increases risk for obesity later in life

A new study debunks the myth that younger moms are more likely to "bounce back" after having a baby - teenage pregnancy actually makes women more likely to become obese.

Gene Linked to Teenage Binge Drinking

New research helps explain why some teenagers are more prone to drinking alcohol than others. The study provides the most detailed understanding yet of the brain processes involved in teenage alcohol...

IUDs, implants encouraged for teenage girls

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenage girls looking for birth control should be encouraged to consider the long-lasting "set and forget" methods, according to the American College of Obstetricians and G...

Scientists find gene link to teenage binge drinking

LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Scientists have unpicked the brain processes involved in teenage alcohol abuse and say their findings help explain why some young people have more of a tendency to binge drin...

One in five US teenage boys diagnosed ADHD, report says

Nearly one in five American teenage boys is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, marking a dramatic rise in the past decade, the New York Times reported on Monday.

Teenage Child Bearing Risk Linked To Pre-Teen Literacy Levels

Pre-teen girls with low literacy levels are more likely to bear children during their teenage years than their peers with higher literacy, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the Unive...

Living in caring communities may help curb teenage alcohol use

Living in a caring community may help curb teenage alcohol use, while hanging out with antisocial peers can have the opposite effect, according to Penn State researchers studying substance abuse patte...

The Association Between Teenage Motherhood and Poor Offspring Outcomes: A National Cohort Study Across 30 Years.

Teenage motherhood is associated with poor offspring outcomes but these associations may be influenced by offspring birth year because of substantial social changes in recent decades. Existing researc...

The Job Satisfaction of Female Sex Workers Working in Licensed Brothels in Victoria, Australia.

ABSTRACT Introduction. Previous studies have examined sex workers' attitudes to work but not their levels of job satisfaction compared with other occupations. Aim. The job satisfaction levels and stan...

EFFECTS OF AGE, ETHNICITY AND HEALTH BEHAVIOURS ON THE PREVALENCE OF ADVERSE BIRTH OUTCOMES IN TAIWAN.

SummaryThis study sampled 8432 singleton first live births from Taiwan's 2005 Birth Registration Database to determine if there were more pre-term or low birth weight deliveries among aboriginal women...

Childhood bullying as a predictor for becoming a teenage mother in Finland.

The aim of this study is to examine the association between bullying behaviour at the age of 8 and becoming a mother under the age of 20. This birth cohort study included 2,867 Finnish girls at baseli...

Short-lived immunity against pertussis, age-specific routes of transmission, and the utility of a teenage booster vaccine.

Pertussis incidence has been increasing for the past two decades in Norway, as in much of the highly vaccinated world. The greatest increase is in teenagers, although the most severe cases occur in in...