Archive: Teens
Are 'Energy' Drinks Threatening Our Kids?
Researchers are calling for warning labels and other steps to curb the abuse of those wildly popular high-caffeine "energy drinks." Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University and 98 other experts sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration this week saying they had become increasingly alarmed about Red Bull...
By Rob Stein | October 9, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (5)
Why Teens Don't Use Condoms
Consider the condom. That little bit of latex has the power to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDS) and to prevent transmission of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer. (We wouldn't be debating giving our daughters the Gardasil vaccine if we could...
By Jennifer Huget | September 12, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (25)
Teens Put a Price on Zit-Free Life
What would the average teenager pay to be zit-free for life? $275. That's what a study in the August issue of the Archives of Dermatology reports. Researchers at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco asked 266 acne-ridden teens (ages 14-18) what they would pay to...
By Jennifer Huget | August 20, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (16)
Is Facebook a Healthy Choice for Teens?
Let me be clear: I trust my 14-year-old daughter, and she's never given me reason not to. (We often have joked that her worst transgression so far was when she snuck off and cut her own hair at age 5.) But trust in her isn't really the issue in our...
By Jennifer Huget | July 15, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (36)
