School health centers help reduce teen pregnancy
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NEW YORK  - School-based health centers   that provide high school students with preventive health care   services and counseling on how to reduce high-risk behaviors,   such as unprotected sexual intercourse, may help decrease teen   pregnancy rates, according to the findings of a Colorado study.
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Hoping to prevent the loss of a child, a few schools have begun monitoring students' arrivals and departures using technology similar to that used to track livestock.
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As schools expand to include students with physiological and psychological challenges, the school nurse has become more than just someone to detect a fever from a fake.
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Fewer American teenagers are having sex, and those who do are using contraceptives more often, according to a new survey from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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NEW YORK  - Participating in physical activities in and out of school more than two times a week protects adolescents from becoming overweight young adults, according to new research.
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The number of girls in school and women in parliaments has risen, and their overall access to contraception has improved in the past decade.
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Among teens in one Los Angles public school, 60 percent reported dieting at some point in their lives -- primarily before the age of 14 -- and many said they skipped meals or vomited to control their weight.
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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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NEW YORK  - Getting teenagers more active   in school life may lower the odds that they will smoke, drink,   use drugs or have sex, a new study suggests.
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Some secondary schools provide no sex education or health advice, a report says.
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Programs that focus exclusively on abstinence have not been shown to affect teenager sexual behavior, although they are eligible for tens of mil lions of dollars in federal grants, according to a study released by a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce teen pregnancies.
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HAVE A HEART, STAY IN SCHOOL Add heart disease to the burdens faced by those who don&#39;t finish high school. Dropping out carries an increased risk of dying from coronary heart disease similar in magnitude to
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For condom makers, it's also back-to-school season.
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WASHINGTON -- Fewer teens are engaging in sexual activity than in the past, and those that do are more likely to use contraceptives, the government said Friday.
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On a street once known as Murder Row, a teen center founded to steer youths away from drugs and crime has become an outpost in another crusade &#151; a nationwide push by anti-abortion activists to expand their foothold in heavily black and Hispanic inner cities.
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Teenagers who are either  underweight or obese are likely to have fewer children in  adulthood, a study has found.
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MONDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- The teen pregnancy rate in the United States is at an all-time low, while the rate of Caesarean deliveries is at an all-time high.