Stephen Russell, a professor of human development and family sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, explains what youth need during and post-election.

The work is published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Kids with ADHD tend to have lower birth weight, which increases their risk of developmental delays and ...

Obviously, most kids won’t grow up to be professional athletes, but every child can develop athleticism. A good strength training program for kids will set them on a trajectory to a healthy lifestyle ...

To improve mental health care for all the children who need it, the Child Mind Institute has begun a program of prevention ...

28, 2024 — Using a national survey of 88,183 adolescents in grades nine to 12, findings show marijuana use declined from 23.1% in 2011 to 15.8% in 2021, with first-time use before age 13 ...

In teenagers with childhood-onset chronic pain unrelated to chronic disease, poor sleep quality and depression were risk factors for substance use in young adulthood.

By 2075, over half the world’s youth will be African. This remarkable projection isn’t just a statistic; it’s a call to the global philanthropic community. Africa’s rapidly expanding youth population ...

Researchers followed nearly 4,000 people for 24 years from the time of enrollment in the study in 1994. Researchers reviewed ...

At a recent Hazelden conference, Winters discussed cannabis’ impact on mental health, addiction and long-term psychosocial functioning.

New research shows adolescents also are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes after gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy ...

Among the entire US population from 2005 to 2021, MenACWY vaccination prevented an estimated 172 cases of IMD (95% credible ...

A modeling study estimates the MenACWY vaccine prevented 500 cases of invasive meningococcal disease in US adolescents from ...