teenagers

A bad relationship with your mother can do more than leave emotional scars — it can also increase your waistline.

A new study in the January issue of Pediatrics found that children who did not have close emotional bonds with their mothers during childhood were significantly more likely to be obese as teenagers.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is considering whether it's OK for young teenagers to buy emergency contraception without a prescription....

(MedPage Today) -- Physicians who encounter myocardial infarction in teenagers should consider the possibility that the teens may have ingested K2, a form of synthetic cannabinoid, researchers said.

The mental ability of teenagers can improve or decline on a far greater scale than previously thought, according to new research.

California has become the first state to make it illegal for teenagers under 18 to use tanning bed

Children who see their parents drunk are twice as likely to regularly get drunk themselves, a new study of young teenagers suggests.

Scouts Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen are fighting to get the Girl Scouts to stop using non-sustainable palm oil in their cookies, and they're actually making progress

CHICAGO (AP) -- The American Academy of Pediatrics wants teenagers banned from tanning salons to reduce their risk of skin cancer....

Despite concerns that an "only" child may be spoiled by his or her parents, new research suggests that teenagers without siblings don't seem to be disadvantaged at all in the development of social skills.

Brief interventions with teenagers who show up in emergency rooms may reduce alcohol-based violence, whether they talk to a therapist while in the ER or get advice via computer.