Healthline Blogs
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Boys: The Teens We Ignore
While looking for other information about teens and health care I found a great article at Tolerance.org entitled, "Guiding our sons from boyhood to manhood - Paul Kivelidentifies four things every emerging man needs." It was an interesting read a...
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College Financial Aid - When To Start Applying
If your teen has just completed his or her junior year in high school, it is time to start applying for college financial aid. While your teen is completing the Common Application this summer and writing the college essay, you can help by support...
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Thank You - Grand Rounds 4.08
Thank you Dr. A at Dr Anonymous for hosting Grand Rounds 4.8 this week and including a link to the post about teens needing flu shots at Teen Health 411.This week was very eclectic, but always good reading, and I am impressed you managed this duri...
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Snacking and the Environment
One way to increase the health of teens would be to get them into the habit of carrying healthy snacks, when they are little. A recent study in Pediatrics with 800 elementary-aged children found that purchases made at corner stores contributed to ...
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Thank You - Grand Rounds 6.17
Thank you Dr. LaPuma at Let Food Be Your Medicine Too for hosting Grand Rounds 6.17 today and including a post from Teen Health 411 about the nutritional disaster of theater popcorn!This week was really interesting - but all the talk about beer, c...
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New Year Ritual
Continuing my theme about the importance of celebration and rituals in our lives, and especially involving teens in holiday rituals, here is a suggestion for a New Years Eve tradition. All you will need is a bowl, preferably metal, a pen, and pape...
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HIV and African American Teens
It is not often you hear adults saying that teen girls need to talk more, but in fact, they need to talk more about HIV/AIDS, and adults need to talk with them! A recent op-ed by Janice Armstrong encouraged young black girls to stop having unprote...
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Put Your Mom in a Cell Phone
We all know that moms and their nagging make us better people, so why not put a mom in every cell phone? It makes perfect sense, now doesn't it? Electronic mass marketing is actually cheap, and in some cases, very effective, particularly if you ar...
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Adolescent Brains and Risky Choices
A new NIMH study documenting brain development could help explain why adolescents are prone to make riskier choices than adults and make it easier to detect mental illness. Results of this new study by Monique Ernst, MD, PhD, and her colleagues fr...
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Freedom is Associated with Less Sexual Activity
Authoritarian parents take note - a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health suggests that teens with more flexible parents are actually less likely to start having sex than teens with rigid and controlling parents.Warm, more democratic relat...
