... Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR).
Parents or caregivers also provided information about their children's mental health. The researchers tracked six mental disorders—generalized anxiety ...
Student use of marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, and methamphetamines all
decreased from 1999 to 2007 as cited by the CDC National Center for Chronic Disease...
Parents play an important role in the development of children's health behaviors, but less is known about the role of parental encouragement for physical ...
Within 2 years of having sex for the first time, half of teenage girls may be infected with at least one of three common sexually transmitted diseases...
When the researchers pooled the data, they found that among subjects
who received an intervention, there was a 39 percent lower risk of teen pregnancy...
A 2005 Public Health study charting childhood obesity by community showed, for example, obesity rates in this age group of 27.5 percent in Hawthorne, ...
By The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Sex education programs that encourage teen-agers to delay sexual activity but also teach them how to reduce their ...
Wilson and ATN are partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to work within local health departments and community coalitions to ...
In the study, 731 adolescents between 16 and 20 reported having a chronic condition, which the study defined as a disease lasting more than six months and ...
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the co-director of the Obesity Institute at Children's National Medical
Center, which is comprehensively addressing the epidemic of childhood obesity. ...
Other authors contributing to this study include Cheryl Lynch, MD, MPH, Center for Health Disparities Research, Medical University of South Carolina; ...
