Teen Health

Sudden Cardiac Arrest Youth Sports

When tragedy strikes: Preventing sudden cardiac death in student-athletes

Children's Health

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3 hours a day on social media hikes risk of mental health issues for teens, study finds

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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire: dispelling the safety myth of e-cigarettes, vaping

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Children's Health

Adolescent relationship abuse: it's more common than you think

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Children's Health

Weight Watchers launches controversial app to help kids lose weight

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New Juul vape prevents teen use with facial recognition, age verification

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Juul e-cig flavors create chemical reactions that irritate airways, study finds

Juul accused by Congress members of marketing e-cigarettes in schools

Children's Health

FDA launches first-ever teen-focused e-cigarette prevention TV ads

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Delaware's law bumping the state smoking age to 21 is now in effect

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Children's Health

Juul CEO apologizes to parents for company's role in teen vaping epidemic

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Children's Health

Vaginal irritation in pediatric girls: what you need to know

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Children's Health

Keeping kids healthy and sane in a digital world

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Why hitting the snooze button could be harmful to your health

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Second-ever LGBT State of the Union champions progress, considers new controversies

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How to identify and help someone with an eating disorder

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Blue light-blocking glasses may help tech-obsessed teens sleep better, study finds

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New mental health care guidelines for females promote empathy, empowerment

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Lancaster teen is tackling testicular cancer and high school graduation

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Teens can 'find themselves' at youth summit popping up at Temple on May 18

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CHOP to offer free pediatric mental health webinar series

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Children's Health

More teens, especially girls, are attempting suicide by poisoning, new report finds

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Planet Fitness is inviting teens to work out for free all summer long

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As syphilis invades rural America, a fraying health safety net is failing to stop it

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Later school-start times reduce teen car accidents – significantly

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Children's Health

Delco gynecologist helps teens avoid relationship abuse, pregnancy

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Mazzoni Center program announces a more inclusive name-change

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Children's Health

Study: Many teens lack privacy to confide in doctors during checkups

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FDA ramps up threat to ban e-cigs as teens keep on vaping

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Children's Health

Pediatric mental health programming in New Jersey just got a big boost

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Teens can get condoms delivered 'discreetly' for free in Philly with this service

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The start of high school doesn't have to be stressful

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When erratic teenage behavior means something more

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Living with neighborhood violence may shape teens' brains

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He started vaping as a teen and now says habit is ‘impossible to let go’

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Major depression diagnoses skyrocketing in millennials, adolescents

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One in 3 teens with autism spectrum disorder gets driver's license, CHOP study says

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Even as birth rates fall, teens say they are getting less sex education

A light of exposure: More than ever, teens are feeling lost and thinking about suicide

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