Cancer doesn't change young girl's desire to have children
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that healthy adolescent females have predetermined expectations for becoming parents in the future, but have concerns about fertility and childbearing should they develop a life-threatening...
What’s happening across Australia with maternal care?
A new maternity indicators report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows mixed trends overall and differing results between population groups.
The report, National Core Maternity Indicators, includes data for 2004...
What's happening across Australia with maternal care?
A new maternity indicators report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows mixed trends overall and differing results between population groups.
The report, National Core Maternity Indicators, includes data for 2004...
There is too much salt in kids’ food
In an era where manufacturers are meant to be reducing salt levels in processed food, a CHOICE review of kids’ food has found unacceptably high-levels of salt in a raft of products, including breakfast...
There is too much salt in kids' food
In an era where manufacturers are meant to be reducing salt levels in processed food, a CHOICE review of kids’ food has found unacceptably high-levels of salt in a raft of products, including breakfast...
Using computers early on great for preschoolers learning ABCs
Learning your A, B, C's could be as easy as using a computer regularly while you're young, a new study has found.
Researchers from the ARC Centre for Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie University...
Children who avoid scary situations likelier to have anxiety
Children who avoid situations they find scary are likely to have anxiety a Mayo Clinic study of more than 800 children ages 7 to 18 found. The study published this month in Behavior Therapy...
Healthcare standards for incarcerated adolescents
Australia’s largest specialist medical college is calling for a significant shift in the engagement with adolescents in the juvenile setting, a marginalised group often beyond the reach of traditional health services, ahead of the...
Short bouts of exercise boost self control
Short bouts of moderately intense exercise seem to boost self control, indicates an analysis of the published evidence in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The resulting increased blood and oxygen flow to the pre-frontal...
Why some teens get pimples
The bacteria that cause acne live on everyone’s skin, yet one in five people is lucky enough to develop only an occasional pimple over a lifetime. What’s the secret?
In a boon for teenagers everywhere,...
