Unicef: British children facing bleaker future under coalition

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Continuing high rates of teenage pregnancy, relatively low levels of young people in education, employment or training and problems of alcohol abuse in young teens push the UK down the international league table. … from reduced skills and …
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Health Week: Drag pharma oversight into this century, Senate committee calls

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Canada's post-market surveillance of the safety and efficacy of prescription drugs remains woefully inadequate, while its superannuated Food and Drugs Act is among a litany of systemic deficiencies, the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs …
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Healthy Kids Survey shows trend toward decreasing risky behaviors

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Drugs and alcohol remain the two most frequently used drugs, primarily because of accessibility. Although 94 percent of … Teen drivers are also subject to an 11 p.m. curfew, which Gerbert said decreases the some of the risk behaviors associated with …
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Smoking is Bad for Bone Health

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The researchers did not find any links between bone density and alcohol consumption or anxiety symptoms. The authors said that the differences in lower spine bone density between a never smoker and a daily smoker by age 19 were as much bone density …
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