A recent study revealed that teens who spend most of their time watching tv have a higher risk of having depression when they grow up.
The more than 4,100 adolescents in the study were first asked in 1995 about the number of hours they had spent the previous week watching television or videocassettes, playing computer games, or listening to the radio. They reported an average daily exposure of about 5.7
hours, including
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In teen girls, depression, anxiety and smoking may inhibit bone growth, according to a new study.
Because of the strong link between osteoporosis and depression and smoking in adults, Dr. Lorah D. Dorn and her colleagues at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Ohio, decided to look for similar associations during the teen years, when nearly 40-50% of bone mass is attained in girls.
The researchers examined
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In Wyoming, suicide is the second-leading cause of death for youths aged 15-19. That is why the department of health is beginning a new program with public and private partners to help address the role of schools in youth suicide prevention.
“Because we are a community here in Wyoming it hurts us all when our youth lose faith in their future and c
onsider suicide as their only option,” says Keith Hotle, suicide prevention
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Teen suicide rates, which had been declining over the past decade, experienced a sharp rise in 2004 over the previous year, according to a recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Although rates fell slightly in 2005, the most recent year for which data was available, the rate was still higher than expected.
Some, such as the National Mental Health Association, believe the “black box”
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