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Teens often decide the benefits, the immediate gratification or peer acceptance, outweigh the risks.
In Moscow teenagers popularize the emo subculture: vulnerable depressed teenagers.
Tobacco Industry Prevention Ads May Actually Have Negative Effects on Teens.
Successful rate of development of children and teens in best neighborhoods not significantly higher than those from disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Interventions focusing on behavior modification may be more effective prevention tactics than current anti drug initiatives.
Teenagers who take a daily multivitamin supplement have a healthier diet and lifestyle than those who don't take vitamins.
Teens whose families emigrated from Asia improve their health habits with every generation born in the United States, more than their white and Latino peers
A health intervention in overweight teens can help curb this disturbing health trend.
Adolescents do exhibit an optimistic bias: a tendency to underestimate their own risks relative to their peers. But this bias turns out to be no more prevalent in adolescents than in grownups; adults commit the very same fallacy in their reasoning.
By early adulthood 20 percent of teen girls use diet and weight loss pills.
Ethnic pride can help teenagers maintain happiness when faced with stress.
Teens who are savvier about the motives and methods of advertisers may be less inclined to take to cigarettes.
Teenagers should never exceed the prescribed dose of over the counter medications.
Teenagers who experienced high blood lead levels during childhood appear to suffer more accidental injuries than those who had lower lead exposure.
Parents know about teenage alcohol and drug use only half of the time.
Teens who have had close relationships with their parents, friendships focused on positive pursuits and good schooling experiences are less likely to experience depression and behavior problems in adolescence.
Teenagers take less account than adults of people's feelings and, often, even fail to think about their own.
Prevention programs conducted in middle school can reduce methamphetamine abuse among rural teens years later.
One in ten teenage girls self harm each year and the problem is far more widespread than was previously thought.
Epidemiological study charts 'trackable' milestones in teen addiction to smoking.
Teen attitudes toward condom use vary by partner type.
The body's decreased response to insulin beginning as early as age 13 may mean increased cardiovascular disease risk by age 19.
Prohibiting teens from working long and late hours, improving safety training, and increasing communications between teens and their coworkers and supervisors may help reduce the occurrence of injury.
Good relationship with their mothers seemed to be associated with correct condom use in teens.
A study tracking teen health shows that more than 3% of US teens have exchanged sex for money or drugs.
Teens who feel dissatisfied with their bodies are at higher risk for future binge eating, smoking, poor eating, and decreased physical activity.
Teens who start their day without breakfast are twice as likely to have diets low in iron, a shortfall that could be hurting their grades.
Exposure to this type of violence on television when a teen's cognitive, social and physical development is still being cemented can affect adolescents in a negative way.
The frequency of adolescents viewing wrestling on TV was positively associated with date fighting and other violent behaviors, according to a study, published by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in the August issue of Pediatrics.
How to prevent teen pregnancy, researchers gain insight.
Teens at risk of developing diabetes can prevent or delay its onset through strength training exercise.