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Dr Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar nominated for the ACAMH awards
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] July 5 (ANI/TPT): Recently, Dr Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar, of Calcutta National Medical College, from Kolkata, has been nominated for the ACAMH awards by the Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr Dastidar has been nominated for the postgraduate trainee category
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Feeling Minds organised Gala Certification Ceremony to certify Parenting E
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI/PNN): Parents today are facing unique challenges in raising up the new generation. The emotional and mental health difficulties in children and adolescents, ranging from depression, anxiety, gaming addiction and aggression has made parenting a great challenge.
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New research finds low vitamin D levels among young people of colour
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 2 (ANI): A University of Houston College of Nursing study discovered that 61 per cent of Black and Hispanic healthy adolescents have low vitamin D levels that go down even lower with age.
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Low vitamin D levels found among young people of color: Study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 30 (ANI): Results from a University of Houston College of Nursing study indicate that 61 per cent of otherwise healthy Black and Hispanic adolescents have low vitamin D levels, that drop even lower with age.
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Over 5 million Chinese students, adolescents suffer from spinal deformitie
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 28 (ANI): Over 5 million primary and high school students in China suffer from Spinal deformities, with an annual increase in cases of about 300,000, a report said citing experts who suggested that Scoliosis has become the third most harmful disease for Chinese child
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ISDM, Dasra and Governance Counts conclude first cohort of women on boards
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 21 (ANI/NewsVoir): The Indian School of Development Management (ISDM) celebrated the completion of the founding cohort of its Women on Boards (WOB) program by organising the closing ceremony at its campus in Noida on June 18, 2022. The event was attended by the partic
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Study finds brain differences in pain modulation in people with self-injur
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Solna [Sweden], June 13 (ANI): Researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute believe they have discovered why people with self-injury behaviour experience less pain than others. The key appears to be a more effective pain-modulation system, a discovery which is a breakthrough that can aid tho
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Almost one-third adolescents don't feel safe at school, says study
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 6 (ANI): A large international study found that on average 31.4 per cent of adolescents reported feeling unsafe at school in 13 European and Asian countries.
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Student wrapped in life-sized condom for sex-education lesson!
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): While sex-education classes for adolescents are almost always a giggle-fest, for students at one Mexican school it was a laugh riot after a teacher during one such class demonstrated an innovative and fun technique of putting on a condom.
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Plan India celebrates the culmination of its 28-day campaign Why Shy to Ta
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] May 31 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Plan India today celebrated the culmination of its 28-day campaign #WHYSHY to Talk Periods which sensitised around 28,000 adolescent girls and boys on menstrual health education and hygiene management in over 300 schools across Jharkhand and
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Over 1 million youth started smoking daily, most used JULL e-cigarettes: U
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
San Diego (California) [US] May 30 (ANI): Nearly 2,300 adolescents and young adults became new tobacco smokers in the US over the period of 2017-2019 with the total number of users under 21 years of age vaping (using e-cigarettes) rising to over 1 million by 2019, accordingly to new publishe
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A toxic triple combination of conflict, weather extremes and economic impa
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI/PNN): The world is seeing unprecedented levels of humanitarian crises. Conflict, weather extremes and the economic impact of COVID-19 are toxic triple combinations that threaten to undo decades of progress in health and social development for the world's poores
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