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January 2, 2009: Study Shows Correlation In New Mexico Between Childhood Immunization Rates And Medicaid Enrollment from Medical News Today (click here for a link to the abstract)

December 30, 2008: American Academy of Pediatrics Recommends Improved Health Plan Payment for Adolescents from MedScape Today

December 29, 2008: Family Rejection of LGB Children Linked to Poor Health in Early Childhood from EurekAlert (click here for a link to the abstract)

December 29, 2008: Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds from the Washington Post (click here for a link to the abstract)

December 29, 2008: Doctors Don't Talk Enough to Teens at Office Visits from Reuters (click here for a link to the abstract)

December 29, 2008: Child Neglect Cases Multiply As Economic Woes Spread from Washington Post

December 19, 2008: Investigational HPV Vaccine Demonstrates Safety in Boys from MedPage Today (click here for a link to the abstract)

December 15, 2008: Teen Depression, Smoking May Inhibit Bone Growth from Fox News (click here for a link to the abstract)

December 15, 2008: Joslin Research Finds Nearly Three-Quarters of Youth with Diabetes Insufficient in Vitamin D from Eurekalert

December 9, 2008 Adolescent Health Care from Eurekalert (click here for a link to the resource)

December 4, 2008: Cervical Cancer Vaccine Well Tolerated from Washington Post

December 1, 2008: Doctors Often Skip Health Behavior Conversations with Teens from Center for the Advancement of Health

November 25, 2008: Message to Reduce Risky Sexual Activity Reaches Across All Teens from Newswise (click here for a link to the abstract)

November 18, 2008: New CT Technology Shows Anorexia Impairs Adolescent Bone Development from Eurekalert

November 17, 2008: Meth Poses Extra Risk for Girls from The Arizona Republic

November 14, 2008: Conduct Disorder in Adolescent Girls Associated With Family Characteristics, Parental Behaviors from Newswire (click here for a link to the abstract)

November 14, 2008: Students Attend Training to be Youth Advocates for Sex Education from The Daily Citizen

November 12, 2008: Lack of basic health information threatens young people’s futures, global study finds from Measure DHS

November 11, 2008: Obama Likely To Reverse Some Bush Administration HIV/AIDS Prevention, Family Planning Policies, Adviser Says from Kaiser Network

November 13, 2008: Eating and Nutrition One Focus of Adolescent Girls’ Workshop from Trading Markets

November 13, 2008: Doctors Should Help Choose Right Birth Control from WDSU.com

November 13, 2008: Pelvic Inflammation Puts Girls at Risk for Repeat STI’s from US News and World Report (click here for a link to the abstract)

November 13, 2008: Reproductive Health Knowledge Essential for Adolescent Girls from The New Nation

November 10, 2008: Health Professionals Debate HPV Vaccine from ABC 7

November 7, 2008: Congressional Activity on Comprehensive Health Reform Ramps Up from Kaiser Network

November 7, 2008: Computer Glitch Improperly Drops Thousands of Florida Children From KidCare from Kaiser Network

November 7, 2008: Adolescent Girls Most at Risk of Getting an STD from Mayo Clinic.com

November 6, 2008: Review Supports Access to Online Medical Records for Teens from Newswise

November 6, 2008: Alcohol Advice Needs To Play Greater Role In Sex Education For Teenagers, Experts Urge from ScienceDaily

November 5, 2008: California Poll Finds Declining Support for Parental Notification Measure from Medical News Today

November 3, 2008: He Walks the World, Talks AIDS with Teens from the Boston Globe

November 3, 2008: Study First to Link TV Sex To Real Teen Pregnancies from the Washington Post (click here for a link to the abstract)

October 22, 2008: Few Adverse Reactions to Cervical Cancer Vaccine from Reuters (click here for a link to the abstract)

October 21, 2008: Child Abuse Increases Risk for Later Sexually Coercive Behavior in Some Men from EurekaAlert Research

October 19, 2008: Lifetime of Health Risk Created By Early Exposure to Drugs, Alcohol from Medical News Today

October 14, 2008: Study Looks at the Lives of Boys Who Commit Dating Violence from Eureka Alerts (click here for a link to the abstract)

October 14, 2008: Adolescent Boys Likely to Coerce Girls into Having Sex from Nursing Times

October 13, 2008: Doctors Double Vitamin D for Children from Boston Globe

October 13, 2008: Empower Children, UN Says from Fiji Times

October 9, 2008: Quarter of Adolescent Girls Received HPV Vaccine from Reuters

October 6, 2008: Teens May Be Missing Out on Needed Vaccines from U.S. News and World Report Research

September 3, 2008: Marriage Off the Table for Most Pregnant Teens from Chicago Tribune

September 3, 2008: Edgy Sex Ed Videos Spark Debate from ABC News

September 2, 2008: Teenage Suicide Rate Remains High from the New York Times

September 1, 2008: Adolescent Services: Smells Like Teen Spirit from Health Service Journal