“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Parents often mistake an eating disorder for being a problem about food. “My son thinks he’s fat! He only eats sweets and carbs.” It is a problem with the way teens eat food, but the reason they eat that way has more to do with how their brain now defines food as bad for them. [...]
