The Youth Pride Clinic, which is a part of the Adolescent Health Center at the Sheikh Zayed Campus for Advanced Pediatric Medicine, will "provide seamless primary and specialty care" for youth between the ages of 12 and 22 years-old who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning.In a statement, Dr. Lawrence D. D'Angelo, the director of the Youth Pride Clinic and the Division Chief of Adolescent and Youth Adult Medicine, says that the clinic was created to address the "tremendous backlog of unmet need for the care" of LGBTQ youth. "We know that there are anywhere between three to 15 percent of youth in the District who self-identify as LGBTQ," D'Angelo said.

Children's Hospital, July 2, 2015

Pacific men, boys urged to participate more in reproductive health

Engaging boys and young men in sexual and reproductive health in the Pacific was the theme of an open hearing taking place in the New Zealand Parliament yesterday.

Pacific Scoop, July 2, 2015

NIH-funded study is the first look at antipsychotic prescriptions patterns in the U.S.

Boys are more likely than girls to receive a prescription for antipsychotic medication regardless of age, researchers have found. Approximately 1.5 percent of boys ages 10-18 received an antipsychotic prescription in 2010, although the percentage falls by nearly half after age 19. Among antipsychotic users with mental disorder diagnoses, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was the most common among youth ages 1-18, while depression was the most common diagnosis among young adults ages 19-24 receiving antipsychotics.

National Institutes of Health, July 1, 2015

Coming Out to Dad: Young Gay and Bisexual Men's Experiences Disclosing Same-Sex Attraction to Their Fathers

ABSTRACT: Few studies have examined the relationship between young gay and bisexual men (YGBM) and their fathers. Based on a phenomenological framework, this study investigated the role of fathers in YGBM's coming-out experience, focusing on how fathers responded to disclosure of same-sex attraction, how fathers' responses compared with sons' expectations, and what sons perceived as having influenced their fathers' responses.

American Journal of Men's Health, July 1, 2015

Gov. Jerry Brown wasted no time Tuesday in signing a contentious California bill to impose one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the country following an outbreak of measles at Disneyland late last year.Brown, a Democrat, issued a signing statement just one day after lawmakers sent him the bill to strike California's personal belief exemption for immunizations, a move that requires nearly all public schoolchildren to be vaccinated. The bill takes effect next year.

The Blaze, June 30, 2015

A new campaign dubbed Seriously Awkward launched by The Children's Society has found that more than a third of older teenagers are so anxious and stressed that they have suffered sleepless nights in the last year.

Techie News, June 29, 2015

Teenaged boys who spend too many hours in front of the computer or television without participating in enough weight bearing exercise could develop weaker bones as they age, a small Norwegian study suggests.

EWN, June 27, 2015

Elizabeth Saewyc, director of the Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre at UBC, a research centre that examines youth health issues, says men who experience sexual violence as children or adolescents may go on to experience mental and physical health issues. However, young men who receive support from family and other adults are more likely to recover from the trauma.

Ubc, June 26. 2015

Campaign asks Ontario to fund HPV vaccine for young men

HPV is commonly associated, at least in the public eye, with cervical cancers. The province currently funds the vaccine for young women.

But HPV does not differentiate between genders, nor does it cause only cervical cancer. According to Dr Irving Salit, a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto who studies HPV transmission among men and who spoke to Daily Xtra in May 2015, the number of HPV-related cancers in men and women are very similar. For men, those cancers include penile, throat and anal cancers.

DailynXtra, June 26, 2015