Teenagers should be considering their dementia risk, academics have said after a new study suggests that having an unhealthy childhood could affect the brain in later life.A child’s body mass index ...

A Shanghai lawmaker is calling for free human papillomavirus vaccinations (HPV) for girls in primary and middle school. Cervical cancer is the most prevalent female cancer in the world. In 2020, a ...

Delayed brain development, genetics, and mental health challenges contribute to disordered eating in young adults, according to a European study by King’s College London. A new study led by the ...

EJ Moreno looks at the horrors of teenage life… What do you remember from growing up? Were the changes to your body or ...

A portal for primary care providers to access mental health consultation for their pediatric patients is expanding statewide.

Investigating the interplay of genetics, brain maturation, and mental health, this study reveals insights into adolescent ...

A team at the University of Cordoba analyzed more than 8,000 scientific papers on substance use and adolescence to look for ...

In a longitudinal study of sleep in childhood through adolescence, better sleep led to fewer mental health problems many ...

Given the vulnerability of the adolescent brain, childhood is “the exact worse time for someone to be exposed to pornography.

Maintaining healthful behaviors may be key to improving the trajectory of heart health from early adolescence into adulthood, according to study findings published in JAMA Cardiology.To identify the ...

The study of over 10,000 American youth reveals that nearly two-thirds of pre-teens are active on platforms they're technically too young to use.