teenage girls

Teenage girls who are sexually active and those who are not eventually all have the same risk for infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV), new research suggests.

(Springer) The peer groups teenage girls identify with determine how they decide to control their own figure. So reports a new study just published online in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, a Springer publication.

Also influencing weight control behavior is girls' own definition of normal body weight and their perception of what others consider normal body weight.

Despite strides in gender equality most teenage girls continue to experience sexual harassment at home, school, and on the playing field.

Elizabeth Alderman, adolescent specialist at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, was astounded by a federal report this week showing that two out of five teenage girls who have had sex have experienced at least one sexually transmitted infection.

Think you won't run into grandparents at your local tanning salon? According to new research, you just might.

In fact, a recent health survey of 29,394 American adults suggests that while 20 percent of 18-39 year olds visited tanning beds, as many as 10 percent of those between 50 and 64 years of age and eight percent of those older than 65 tanned indoors.