Sober On Demand expands into adolescent mental health, intervention, sober companions, and case management, offering ...
To view the lives of adolescents through the lens of health care is to see a paradox: while most adolescents at this stage of life are thriving, they are also experiencing their moment of greatest ...
Teens who start using cannabis before age 15 are more likely to use the drug often later in their lives. They are also more likely to develop mental and physical health problems in young adulthood ...
Global mortality continues to fall. Life expectancy has improved to unprecedented levels and deaths in young children have plummeted. Yet for adolescents and young adults, especially those aged 15 to ...
Saint Louis University's adolescent medicine section aims to improve the health of adolescents in the St. Louis region and surrounding areas as well as to educate health care providers about ...
Parents frequently express apprehension regarding the duration of mobile phone, tablet, and game console usage among their children. It is common to associate screens with nearly all childhood and ...
The right of adolescents to access confidential health care is sensitive and controversial. Recent challenges in the court system to adolescents' right to access abortion and contraception are eroding ...
Among the lingering and notable consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the impact on many of our youth, battling mental health challenges. More specifically, and with growing frequency, it is ...
A new study suggests that growing up in poverty accelerates biological development. For adolescent girls, this early onset of ...
A non-governmental organisation – Hacey – has presented a scorecard of its framework priorities on adolescent and young people’s sexual health. The presentation was done at the second national ...
NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...