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Youths don't question claims of e-cigarettes as safe, cool alternative to smoking LAWRENCE -- The tobacco industry has a history of targeting young people in its advertising to attract new customers. As vaping and electronic cigarettes…

Teens driving with teens: More than half of parents in a new national poll believe their teen has been in an unsafe situation riding with a teen driverCredit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Students in Pennsylvania school districts that participated in Communities that Care (CTC) coalitions were significantly less likely to use alcohol or marijuana, or to engage in delinquent behavior than those in…

New study from BU psychologists suggests that for children, retribution comes before gratitude Peter Blake, a Boston University associate professor of psychological and brain sciences and director of BU's Social Development and Learning…

September 11, 2019 -Attention to menstruation and its relationship to girls' schooling is gaining ground, yet many challenges remain. Interventions have often focused on developing WASH --water, sanitation and hygiene -- infrastructure…

Innovative study of social groups shows trusted adults, as well as peers, can help with preventionCredit: University of Rochester Medical Center High schools where students are more connected to peers and adult staff, and share strong…

Study shows NYU College of Dentistry's Saturday Academy boosts underrepresented high school students' interest in health professionsCredit: NYU College of Dentistry The field of dentistry has a diversity problem. Despite…

Credit: University of Jyväskylä Adolescents with higher levels of physical activity performed better in school during transition from primary school to lower secondary school than their physically inactive peers, a new study from Finland…

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 4, 2019--Since 2000, school district secessions in the South have increasingly sorted white and black students, and white and Hispanic students, into separate school systems, weakening the potential to improve…

INFORMS Journal Operations Research New Study Key Takeaways: A new algorithm achieves school diversity goals while allowing parents to still have a say in where their child attends. The only caveat with the model is there is no…