Healthline Blogs
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Helping Friends Who Are Stressed And Depressed
We all have bad days or even months, and we all feel overwhelmed or like we cannot cope, but it is important to remember that things will always get better. Sometimes it helps when our friends tell us that!There are three ways people tend to react...
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Sexual Risk Patterns in Junior High
A recent article in the Journal of School Health reported the prevalence of vaginal, oral, and anal intercourse among 1,279 urban, public middle school students from 10 middle schools in a large southeastern school district. The participants were ...
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Hospitalizations for Eating Disorders
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (H-CUP) recently published national estimates of hospitalizations for eating disorders from 1999-2000 and 2005-2006. The data reflected an 18 percent increase in eating disorder-related hospital stays b...
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Are Violent Video Games Really Bad?
An article in USA Today says "No." Citing research by sociologist Karen Sternheimer, the article suggests that we need to look beyond video games and pay more attention to things like community and family violence, alienation, and a lack of parent...
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Thank You - Grand Rounds 5.1
Thanks to Val Jones, MD at Dr Val and the Voice of Reason (and her hosts Kevin and Kim) for hosting Grand Rounds this week and including the Teen Health 411 post about family dinners.This week was really fun to read, and I loved the quotes from th...
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Graduation and Promotion Time
It is that time again - the month of June - graduations abound, lives are changing, and teens everywhere complete junior high, middle school, and high school. I love all the ritual associated with graduations and promotions - the pomp and circumst...
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Thank You - Grand Rounds 5.52
Thank you to Dr. Bates at Suture for a Living for hosting Grand Rounds 5.52 this week and including a post about the influence of parents' alcohol use on the substance abuse of teens from Teen Health 411.This week was a great reading experience to...
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Meals Matter from the Dairy Council of California
By 2030, the American Hospital Association estimates that more than 37 million midlife adults will be managing more than one chronic condition such as obesity or diabetes. The Dairy Council of California is providing a three-week self-directed Nut...
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Reasons for Unprotected Sexual Intercourse
The May issue of the journal Contraception includes an article about the reasons teens are participating in unprotected intercourse, which in the United States leads to the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnanci...
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Fashion Bullies in Middle School
The Wall Street Journal recently included an article about fashion bullies by Vanessa O'Connell that I really enjoyed, in a sick, kind of irritated beyond belief kind of way. The article talked about the fact that adolescent girls have long used f...
