The FDA recently approved the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine for boys ages 9-26 years. It has already been approved for girls ages 9-26 years. The vaccine includes the HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18 which are major contributors to the development of vulvar, vaginal, cervical, anal, penal cancers and genital warts.
Although it is approved [...]
Being a teen is certainly about figuring out who you are, but it starts by being like everyone else. The last thing you want to do is be different, look different or require any different or specialty treatment. For teens with disfiguring or medically intensive treatment, the struggle deals with the desire to be like [...]
Chest pain, heart palpitations, difficulty breathing and left arm pain, all sound like symptoms of a heart attack, but these are symptoms of a panic attack seen in teens with anxiety. Panic attacks are common when people feel frightened or nervous about a situation.
Panic attacks can feel just like a heart attack. However you should [...]
Is your teen planning on losing weight this year? Have they done the most important first step in weight loss? It is so important that if they don’t take this step they are sure to gain the weight back.
The first step in weight loss is for your teen to accept themselves as a great person [...]
“I know we talked about the medicine for Ashley’s acne, and I know how Ashley feels about treating her acne since she would like to try it, but I have decided against that treatment.”
Thinking back to when you were a teen can really help here. Teens have minimal say in their lives. Many of their [...]
Teens start smoking in an effort to look cool, be accepted or just because they want to. They are more likely to become long term smokers the younger they start. Fortunately, the trend for teen cigarette use has been declining with the most current data indicating that twelfth grade use has decreased from 25% in [...]
World’s Aids Day was started by the World Health Organization in 1988 to remember those who have been affected by HIV/AIDS. HIV is a virus that affects the immune system and essentially makes the person susceptible to very simple infections and can progress to severe illness referred to as AIDS, which is the result of [...]
By the age of 50, eighty percent of women are going to test positive for the virus HPV or human papilloma virus on their cervix. HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer and cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. This is the reason that women raised their [...]
Can you check my teen’s thyroid no matter what she does she can’t seem to lose the weight? If my teen has physical education isn’t that enough activity to lose weight?
These are common questions. If you feel like your teen doesn’t eat as well as they should, well let’s just say you’re not alone. As your teen begins [...]
Men wait until the last minute to go to their doctor. Because they wait, their cancers tend to be more advanced when they are finally diagnosed. Men are dying earlier because they don’t address medical or emotional complaints. This is the same pattern seen among teen boys who are less likely to go to the doctor for sexual [...]
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