E-cigs Hook A New Generation

Last week on The PediaBlog, we spent two days (here and here) poking holes in the myth that vaping is less harmful than smoking. Katherine Martinelli at Child Mind Institute tells parents of teens “What You Need To Know” by listing some of the health...

Nurturing A Healthy Body Image

  Raising girls can’t be easy in this day and age when there’s so much pressure to be “super-thin and sexy too,” says Gail Saltz, M.D.: Girls coming of age in the 21st century have more opportunities than any of the generations that...

Teens: Survey Says…

  Ask a teenager what problems they see their peers suffering from and you may be surprised by how attentive and sensitive they are. 70% of U.S. teens ages 13-17, surveyed last year by the Pew Research Center, said anxiety and depression were major problems; only...

Going Up In Vapor

  One very promising health statistic in recent years has been the declining rate at which Americans smoke cigarettes. Hard as it is to believe, almost half (42%) of adults in the U.S. smoked cigarettes in 1965. But more than half a century later, only 14% (34.3...

Resolved: Better Health (3)

This post originally appeared on The PediaBlog on January 5, 2018.   Make This A Better Place   (Adam@Home by Rob Harrell — GoComics.com)   The AAP is resolved to help parents raise healthy and useful children. On Wednesday, we looked at some New Year’s...