(Reuters Health) – Letting teens start school just 10 minutes later each day might help them get more than 20 minutes extra sleep on a typical night, a Canadian study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Healthcare providers and parents should begin talking to adolescents in middle school about healthy romantic and sexual relationships and mutual respect for others, a doctors’ group urges. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Teens seeking to buy emergency contraception at pharmacies continue to face significant roadblocks, a new U.S. study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Kids from low income neighborhoods who won a lottery and got into high-performing Los Angeles County high schools were less likely to get into trouble with marijuana compared to peers who lost in the lottery, a new study finds. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – The popular e-cigarette brand JUUL is attracting an alarming number of teens online, researchers say. At least a quarter of JUUL’s twitter followers may be under 18, they write in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Adolescents from low-income families are more likely than their affluent peers to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease like obesity, inactivity, poor nutrition and tobacco use, a U.S. study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Teens may be less likely to get in fist fights when they live in countries where it’s illegal for parents to spank or slap children as punishment for bad behavior, an international study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Adolescents who try marijuana are not just smoking it. Many are also vaping or eating cannabis, a U.S. study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Teens who get too little sleep may be more likely to engage in risky behaviors like drinking, smoking, and unprotected sex than their peers who get enough rest at night, a study of U.S. high school students suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Compared to teens whose gender expression matches societal expectations, gender nonconforming adolescents may be more likely to experience mental health problems, a U.S. study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Less than one in five teens with chronic health problems have made plans with their pediatrician to take over responsibility for their own care and transition to seeing doctors who treat adults, a U.S. study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Roughly one in 11 American middle and high school students have used cannabis in e-cigarettes, a study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Transgender adolescents are far more likely to attempt suicide than teens whose identity matches what it says on their birth certificates, and trans male youth are especially at risk, a U.S. study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – One in three teen drivers in the U.S. text while driving, new survey data suggests. And the number may be higher in states where teens start driving at younger ages. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – – Doctors who treat adolescents should find ways to ask them about their gender identity during office visits, researchers say. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Children and teens who specialize in one sport may be more likely to get injured than those who play a variety of sports, a new study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Many pediatricians and family physicians don’t discuss the meningococcal B vaccine with teens even though these conversations are recommended to determine whether adolescents should get shots to protect against this lethal infection, a U.S. study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual or questioning teens are at least twice as likely as their heterosexual peers to use illegal drugs like cocaine, ecstasy, heroin and methamphetamines, a U.S. study suggests. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Adolescents who have smoked e-cigarettes are more than three times more likely to move on to marijuana than teens who have never tried vaping, a U.S. study suggests. Reuters: Health News
The U.S. government is urging federal judges to dismiss two lawsuits by Planned Parenthood affiliates over its efforts to impose what they called an “abstinence-only-until-marriage” focus in its Teen Pregnancy Protection Program. Reuters: Health News
(Reuters Health) – Roughly two in three U.S. teens believe that tougher gun control laws might help prevent mass shootings, a survey suggests. Reuters: Health News
