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A teenager, from Thornton, CO., smokes a joint on a Friday afternoon in front of the Colorado State Capitol in downtown Denver, CO, during the annual 420 day. File/Bill Ross/UPI  License photo NEW YORK, April 27 (UPI) – U.S. teens smoke the most marijuana in the world, have the highest mortality in the world and [...]

BLOOMINGTON, Ill., April 15 (UPI) – U.S. teens say they are more at risk by drinking and driving than texting and driving, a survey indicates. State Farm survey, conducted Feb. 2 to 5 by Harris Interactive of 652 teens ages 14-17, including 280 who have a driver’s license or permit, indicated fewer teens view texting [...]

Published: March. 10, 2012 at 11:15 PM NEW YORK, March 10 (UPI) – Sex education does not encourage U.S. teens to have sex sooner or to take more sexual risks — rather, it delays sex, as does abstinence, researchers said. Laura Duberstein Lindberg and Isaac Maddow-Zimet of the Guttmacher Institute in New York analyzed data [...]

Published: Nov. 23, 2011 at 3:19 PM BOSTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) — Both cyberbullying and school bullying victimization are higher among non-heterosexually identified U.S. youths, researchers say. In fall 2008, researchers surveyed 20,406 high school students in Boston’s MetroWest region to assess their bullying victimization and psychological distress, including depressive symptoms, self-injury and tendency toward [...]

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) — Obese teens who want to lose weight may not be going about it in the most healthy or effective ways, according to new research. Simply put, the researchers said, teens trying to drop the pounds don’t seem to fully understand the link between exercise and calories. The analysis of [...]

TUESDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) — Teens who don’t get enough sleep may find themselves putting on extra pounds and boys, in particular, may be at risk for obesity, new research suggests. In the study, researchers surveyed 108 male and 147 female students at a Texas high school and found that the average sleep time [...]

Published: Oct. 12, 2011 at 3:51 PM ATLANTA, Oct. 12 (UPI) — Eight in 10 U.S. male teens used a condom the first time they had sex from 2006 to 2010 — an increase of 9 percentage points from 2002, health officials say. A report, “Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and [...]

Published: Sept. 11, 2011 at 11:54 PM CLEVELAND, Sept. 11 (UPI) — After a survey indicated 40 percent of Ohio teens had not been vaccinated against meningococcal disease, nurses began educating families about the health issue. The Ohio Association of School Nurses, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County health officials, and the Consortium for Healthy and Immunized [...]

Published: Sept. 11, 2011 at 11:54 PM CLEVELAND, Sept. 11 (UPI) — After a survey indicated 40 percent of Ohio teens had not been vaccinated against meningococcal disease, nurses began educating families about the health issue. The Ohio Association of School Nurses, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County health officials, and the Consortium for Healthy and Immunized [...]

Published: Aug. 22, 2011 at 2:06 AM DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 22 (UPI) — Happier adolescents are less likely to be involved in crime or drug use, U.S. researchers say. Study co-author Bill McCarthy of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues analyzed data from 1995 and 1996 from nearly 15,000 seventh- to ninth-grade students in [...]

Published: Aug. 22, 2011 at 2:06 AM DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 22 (UPI) — Happier adolescents are less likely to be involved in crime or drug use, U.S. researchers say. Study co-author Bill McCarthy of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues analyzed data from 1995 and 1996 from nearly 15,000 seventh- to ninth-grade students in [...]