A Yale researcher reports a community-level intervention program, aimed at young adolescents, delays early intercourse, increases condom use and reduces the type of risky sexual behavior that can result in sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.

The intervention consists of AIDS education, skills training, peer influence and both family and neighborhood support to avoid and reduce high-risk behavior among adolescents. The authors say community-level interventions have proven to be successful with gay men, injection drug users and inner-city women, but this was one of the first to have targeted adolescents

The state of Nevada receives the first funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for youth suicide prevention and early intervention programs.

The $400,000 grant is a key component of the state's initiative for the Columbia University TeenScreen Program, a voluntary youth mental health and suicide-risk screening program

More than half of American teens ages 15 to 19 have engaged in oral sex, increasing to nearly 70% for those who are 18 and 19, according to the largest federal study of the nation's sexual practices.

Findings now suggest a shift in sexual practices, in which females are using oral and lesbian sex "as a safer alternative than [vaginal] sex with men

More than half of American teens ages 15 to 19 have engaged in oral sex, increasing to nearly 70% for those who are 18 and 19, according to the largest federal study of the nation's sexual practices.

Findings now suggest a shift in sexual practices, in which females are using oral and lesbian sex "as a safer alternative than [vaginal] sex with men

Houston is known as the "City of Syrup" because the abuse of codeine-fortified cough syrup among the city's youth is so widespread, a local researcher says to The Associated Press.

The reputation is reflected in a trial that begins Tuesday of six pharmacists charged with illegally dispensing the highly addictive prescription cough syrup codeine with promethazine