A recent study recently dispelled a medical myth and asserted that smoking does not help lower the weight of teenage girls. It does, however impede the growth of teenage boys.

After observing a total of 1,293 Montreal teenagers from ages 12 to 17, and conducting follow-up checks every three months of smoking and lifestyle habits, the experts from the University of Montreal concluded that there were no differences in the girls' weights, or body mass index

More Canadian youths are turning to unprescribed use of common medicine from serving as a party popper to other non-medical purposes. The drugs, usually filched from the family medicine box, are mixed with alcohol to produce a deadly cocktail.

Aside from the alarming rise in number of young Canadians taking common medicine such as painkillers, equally dangerous is the lack of awareness of the parents that some pills and tablets are already missing and that their children are frequent attendees to weekend parties where deadly combinations of prescription drugs and alcohol go together

A recent study revealed that Canadian teenagers spend too much time in front of a screen, whether it be a computer screen, a television screen, or a video game screen. The statistics for it skyrocket in the case of kids belonging to lower-income households.

Experts drew their findings from an experiment that studied 1,293 students from the 7th grade, analyzed for five years. The subjects were asked to fill out surveys four times throughout the entire period, with the questions mostly centering on tobacco dependence

One in four American teenage girls has at least one common sexually transmitted disease (STD), the new study said Tuesday. It is the first study carried out by the U.S. Center's for Disease Control (CDC) that examines the combined national prevalence of common STDs among adolescent women in the United States.

CDC says that at least 3.2 million teens aged 14 to 19 are currently infected. This accounts for 26 percent of the total girls that have human papilloma virus, chlamydia, genital herpes or trichomoniasis

A recent study revealed that teenage Americans who skip breakfast are those most likely to have weight problems, compared to those who do take the time to eat their morning meal.

The researchers from University of Minnesota's Project EAT drew their findings from an experiment that involved 2,216 teenagers, whose breakfast habits were observed for five straight years. The analysis of the gathered data revealed that compared to those who did not, students who ate breakfast gained less weight and had lower body mass index