While currently recommended for both boys and girls, the HPV vaccine was initially marketed -- and is still thought of -- as a way to protect young women and girls from cervical, vaginal and vulvar cancer. Boys, it's been commonly thought, should be vaccinated primarily to benefit herd immunity and any future female partners. But a new analysis from researchers at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center in Toronto, Canada, points out that boys who get the vaccine receive important protection as well, not only against genital warts, but against HPV strains that cause oropharyngeal (mouth and throat) cancer.

Huffington Post, April 20, 2015

Teen boys who have been a victim of sexual assault are likelier to attempt suicide, a new study says.

University at Buffalo researchers analyzed data from more than 31,000 American teens, aged 14 to 18, who took part in surveys in 2009 and 2011. Among healthy-weight boys, 3.5 percent of those with no history of sexual assault attempted suicide within the past year, compared with more than 33 percent of those who had been sexually assaulted, the investigators found.

Health Day, April 17, 2015

Large Study of Thyroid Cancer Patients Uncovers Wide Disparities in Survival among Adolescent and Young Adult African Americans and Hispanics, CPIC Researchers Say

Barriers to quality treatment and follow-up care may contribute to poorer outcomes for young thyroid cancer patients of low socioeconomic status

Over the past forty years, thyroid cancer has ranked consistently among the top three cancers affecting adolescents and young adults. Prognosis is generally excellent, but some young thyroid cancer patients are at higher risk of mortality due to place of residence, racial/ethnic background, insurance status, and factors such as age and gender, according to researchers at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC).

PR Web, April 15, 2015

Research presented to the APS College of Health Psychologists Conference over the weekend showed pre-adolescent boys and girls have differing body image issues, meaning body image programs should be gender specific.

Stuff, New Zealand, April 15, 2015

Should Boys be Vaccinated Against HPV?

A study suggests between $8 million and $28 million might have been saved by vaccinating 12-year-old boys

A new study suggests giving boys the HPV vaccine could cut health-care costs over the long run. The researchers used mathematical modelling to estimate the effect of giving HPV vaccine to 12-year-old boys to prevent cancers of the mouth and throat. The work suggests if all the 12-year-old boys in Canada had been vaccinated in 2012, between $8 million and $28 million might have been saved because of oropharyngeal cancers averted in that group.

The Canadian Press, April 13, 2015

IRELAND: Mary McAleese: Young gay men are "most at risk" of suicide

Former president Mary McAleese has said there is "a great debt" owed to young gay people who have "been forced into the shadows" and "into self-doubt" by society's attitudes towards homosexuality - with young gay men "most at risk" of suicide. 

Newstalk, April 13, 2015

Federal Register, April 6, 2015