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The Roundup contains information about all of the latest news, commentary, reports, surveys, issue briefs, charts, and fact sheets related to boys' issues collected by our staff during the preceding week.
News Clips
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Who's Leading the Leading Health Indicators?: Injury and Violence
In 2010, both unintentional and violence-related injuries accounted for 50.6 percent of all deaths among people ages 1 to 44 in the United States. That is more deaths than those attributable to non-communicable diseases and infectious diseases combined.
Healthfinder.gov
November 1, 2013
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Transitional-aged youth and substance use: teenaged addicts come of age
The special issues related to adolescents who are transitioning into adulthood have become an area of increasing interest for clinicians. In particular, the age range of 16 to 26 years is referred to as transitional-aged youth (TAY). These transition years span the potentially perilous developmental years of growing out of childhood and into adulthood, often not yet having mastered the maturity of adulthood.
Contemporary Pediatrics
November 1, 2013
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University studies find prescription drug abuse rising among teenagers
Nearly two million Americans are addicted to prescription opioids, a family of drugs that includes the commonly prescribed Vicodin and OxyContin. Two recent University studies further demonstrate the prevalence of these painkillers among adolescents and their potential for leading to chronic substance abuse.
Michigan Daily
October 31, 2010
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Suicide a Risk for Young Cancer Patients, Study Finds
A diagnosis of cancer may put teens and young adults at risk for suicide, a new study finds. "There is a need to support and carefully monitor this vulnerable population," said lead researcher Donghao Lu, from the department of medical epidemiology and biostatistics at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
Medline Plus
October 30, 2013
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What Schools Can Do to Help Boys Succeed
Being a boy can be a serious liability in today's classroom. As a group, boys are noisy, rowdy and hard to manage. Many are messy, disorganized and won't sit still. If boys are restive and unfocused, we must look for ways to help them do better. Here are three suggestions.
NEA Today
October 30, 2013
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Online forums a 'mixed bag' for depressed youth
Troubled kids can find helpful support on the Internet. They can also find encouragement to hurt themselves and avoid professional help, suggests a new look at past studies. Researchers said Internet forums and other online resources may be both good and bad influences when it comes to self-harm and suicidal thoughts among depressed young people.
Medline Plus
October 30, 2013
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Should Boys Fight Back? Or Walk Away?
Are we, the adults, perhaps unintentionally contributing to school shootings by restricting all forms of physical fighting? Would letting kids solve problems physically, at times, keep things from simmering to the extent that they explode in a hail of bullets?
Parade
October 30, 2013
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Teen ED visits: 1 in 10 due to opioid, sedative abuse
Non-medical prescription opiate or sedative use is responsible for about one-in-10 ED visits by young adults, researchers have found.
Clinical Advisor
October 29, 2013
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Pediatricians call for limits on kids' screen time
Families should make a "media use plan" and set clear rules about TV, cell phones and other devices, pediatricians said today.
That includes limiting kids' screen time to one or two hours per day. Parents should also keep children's rooms free of TV and Internet access, according to a policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on Communications and Media.
Medline Plus
October 28, 2013
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What Schools Can Do to Help Boys Succeed
If boys are restive and unfocused, we must look for ways to help them do better. Here are three suggestions
TIME.com
October 28, 2013
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'Brosurance' health care campaign targets frat boys
Two Colorado health care advocacy groups are using social media to urge young men to get insurance through the Affordable Health Care Act.
The Indy Channel
October 28, 2013
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Review: 'American Promise' a fascinating look at two boys' education
No one can accuse filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson of taking the easy way out. For 13 years they followed the educational lives of two African American boys (one of them their son), amassing more than 800 hours of footage in the process.
Los Angeles Times
October 24, 2013
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Leonard Sax: Blame Parents, Not Kids, for Sexting
If mom and dad installed monitoring software on their middle-schoolers' phones, it would make a big difference.
Wall Street Journal
October 24, 2013
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Nixing Recess: The Silly, Alarmingly Popular Way to Punish Kids
Three-quarters of principals say that taking away recess is part of their discipline plan. Why this is a bad idea�and what schools should do instead.
The Atlantic
October 23, 2013
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Why We Don't Use the Word "Bully" to Label Kids
We can certainly understand wanting to use shorthand terms, since it feels a bit clumsy saying "the child who bullied" or "the child who was bullied." However, here are several important reasons we avoid using labels likebully and victim:
Stop Bullying.gov
October 23, 2013
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Three-Quarters of U.S. Teens Say They Don't Drink
The top five reasons why teens said they don't drink are: it's illegal; it can harm health; it can affect their school grades; parents don't approve; and they don't want to be like others who drink.
Healthfinder.gov
October 23, 2013
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CDC study shows kids like those little flavored cigars
On Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the first ever survey targeting the popularity of flavored cigars among teenagers in the U.S. The results of the 2011 survey showed that 1 out of 30 middle and high school children smoked the sweet-smelling, compact, little cigars. The figures rose to almost 1 in 12 with high school seniors.
The Examiner
October 22, 2013
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Counseling With HIV Testing May Not Help Prevent Future STDs
Contrary to what experts have believed, briefly counseling people who take a rapid HIV test on how to reduce their risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is not effective, a new study shows.
Medline Plus
October 22, 2013
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Study: 15 Percent of US Youth out of School, Work
Almost 6 million young people are neither in school nor working, according to a study released Monday. That's almost 15 percent of those aged 16 to 24 who have neither desk nor job, according to The Opportunity Nation coalition, which wrote the report.
ABC News
October 21, 2013
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NIDA's Drug Abuse Information for Teens Goes Mobile
For teens, their parents and teachers, NIDA has upgraded its popular teen website to a "responsive design" model that automatically adjusts to fit the viewer's screen for better viewing through smartphones and tablets. The new design is also more engaging, with larger, more vibrant buttons that link directly to resources that provide answers to questions and concerns related to drug abuse in adolescents.
ENews Park Forest
October 21, 2013
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UCLA gets $7 million to study substance use and HIV among minority men who have sex with men
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded UCLA a $7 million grant to investigate the links between substance abuse and HIV among Latino and African-American men who have sex with men. Researchers will examine how non-injected drugs and alcohol can directly interact with the virus and other infectious diseases, to damage these men's health. Enrollment in the study begins in January.
Pys.org
October 21, 2013
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Pediatricians: Scientific evidence shows GOP's cuts to food stamps will hurt children
Pediatricians from Boston Medical Center are warning that cuts to the nation's food stamp program would endanger childrens' long-term health. "SNAP acts as a vaccine against food insecurity and hunger," lead author Deborah Frank, MD, Director of the Grow Clinic for Children at BMC wrote in a commentary in last week's issue of Lancet. "Our research consortium, Children's HealthWatch, has for more than a decade accumulated data on the impacts of food insecurity and interventions to decrease food insecurity among low-income babies and young children."
Raw Story
October 7, 2013
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1 In 3 Black Males Will Go To Prison In Their Lifetime, Report Warns
Huffington Post
October 4, 2013
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THE UNRELENTING CHALLENGE OF YOUNG BLACK MALE UNEMPLOYMENT
Today, young black men in many low income communities are finding themselves virtually locked out of employment opportunity. The confluence of poor schooling, low education attainment, lack of early work experience or career exposure, over-zealous arrests and incarceration, and employer reluctance to hire have rendered a substantial segment of black men unemployable very early in their adult life, with few options available to get back on track.
CLASP
August 27, 2013
International News
AFGHANISTAN
CANADA
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Mental-health mystery: more and younger kids visiting ER
More children, many of them younger than previously seen, are visiting emergency rooms in Windsor with significant mental health issues � including suicidal thoughts � according to a new study.
Windsor Star
November 1, 2013
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Boys breaking ballet stereotypes
This year, Canada's National Ballet School (NBS) has the highest percentage of boys in its entry-level Grade 6 class in its history: 65 per cent. Currently, there are 6 girls and 11 boys, including Cole. The school also has the largest enrolment of boys in its 54-year history, with 59 boys in Grades 6 to 12, or 41 per cent.
The Star
November 1, 2013
IRELAND
SCOTLAND
UK
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Boys 'much more likely to be labelled with special needs'
Boys are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with special educational needs amid fresh claims that children are being labelled as an "excuse" for bad behaviour and low achievement.
The Telegraph
October 23, 2013
Give boys the jab!
In a survey conducted by OnePoll, three times as many people said they would support giving the jab to boys than were opposed to it. The poll also showed the public's lack of knowledge when it comes to the virus, with more than one in five men (21 per cent) under the impression HPV can be transmitted like a common cold.
The Economic Voice
October 21, 2013 |
