Birth Rate for Young Teens Lowest Since 1946
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The birth rate among adolescent and  young teen girls in the United States fell sharply in the  1990s, hitting a 58-year-low in 2002, the Centers for Disease  Control and Prevention reported on Monday.
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England's strategy to reduce teenage  pregnancies is working but the pace of decline is not enough to  meet its target of halving the rate of conceptions by the end  of the decade, scientists said on Friday.
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A comprehensive study finds that abortion and miscarriage lead to low birth weight and preterm birth. But is 40-year old data still relevant today?
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Immunization rates for young U.S.  children stayed at record levels in 2006, but a government  survey released on Thursday showed that many teens were not  getting their recommended shots.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDayNews) -- Rates of overweight among young children in low-income U.S. families increased between 1989 and 2000, says a study in the December issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
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More children in the United States are living in a household with at least one working parent and fewer teens than ever are having babies, the annual federal report on children has found.
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Children born very prematurely continue to have emotional, attentional and social problems during their teen years, according to the results of a UK study.
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Germany sees another decline in its birth rate, which is the lowest in Europe.
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The suicide rate among young men in England and Wales is the lowest for 30 years, say researchers.
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NEW YORK  - People who were born early or just had an unusually low birth weight are more likely to be hospitalized in adolescence and young adulthood, Swedish researchers report.
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Some moms and dads might want to take a lesson from their kids: Just say no. The government reported Thursday that 4.4 percent of baby boomers ages 50 to 59 indicated that they had used illicit drugs in the past month. It marks the third consecutive yearly increase recorded for that age group by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
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Gains among blacks and Puerto Ricans drove infant mortality rates to a record low in New York City last year, city officials reported Thursday.
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Black Americans born between 1946 and 1964  "are no better off relative to whites than their parents and grandparents" were in terms of income, according to a new Duke University study.
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WASHINGTON -- Japan, Germany and many other large industrialized countries face long-term population slowdowns or declines as more young adults have fewer children or delay child-rearing, demographers say.
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Britain's suicide rate for young men has plunged to its lowest level in two decades and is nearly 30 percent below its peak in 1998, the government announced on Friday.
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By Arias, Donya C  The percentage of U.S. children living in counties that do not meet air quality standards for fine particulate matter declined from 1999 to 2004, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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A jump in the number of babies born at abnormally low birth weights was the main reason why the U.S. infant mortality rate rose in 2002 for the first time in 44 years, according to a federal study released on Monday.