Category: 2013 Newsletter

June 17, 2013 News Clips Do the Health Benefits of Neonatal Circumcision Outweigh the Risks?These days, approximately 57% of boys are circumcised in U.S. hospitals, with the procedure generally being more common among whites and less common among black and Hispanic populations, according to estimates. Other boys are circumcised in religious ceremonies shortly after birth.Wall READ MORE

June 24, 2013 News Clips Boy-On-Boy Sexual Hazing on the Rise (audio)Ten percent of high school boys report being victims of rape, forced oral sex and other sexual assault, according to a study by the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Experts say sexual hazing has been increasing in the past decade, and high school hazing fuels college hazing.NPRJune 21, READ MORE

July 8, 2013 News Clips Sleepy Teens Reach for Fast Foods First“Not only do sleepy teens, on average, eat more food that’s bad for them, they also eat less food that is good for them,” study leader Lauren Hale, an associate professor of preventive medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, said in a READ MORE

July 15, 2013 News Clips Lamm: Affirmative action for college menAre men the forgotten minority? If so, would affirmative action ever be justified for increasing the male to female ratio in colleges?For years, the percentage of males enrolled in American colleges has been declining, with women making up nearly 57 percent of all undergrads at four-year READ MORE

July 22, 2013 News Clips Child Experts: What to Say About VerdictChild therapists say the verdict creates an opportunity to talk to our sons about history.The RootJuly 21, 2013 Taliban tried to make eight-year-old a suicide bomber: Afghan rebels recruit starving orphans with sweets and 60p bribesFilm-maker Najibullah Quraishi said: ‘Thousands of children are being READ MORE

July 29, 2013 News Clips Building a strong healthcare infrastructure for adolescentsFor a successful community to exist, a secure infrastructure is needed. So too in healthcare – routine preventive service visits and urgent care visits with sophisticated testing and treatments must be combined with the basic infrastructure of adequate access to food, dependable housing, electricity READ MORE

August 5, 2013 News Clips Obesity, a Fledgling Disease, Needs Physician SupportIf physicians don’t start having serious dialogues with their overweight patients, the American Medical Association’s recent classification of obesity as a disease won’t mean much at all.Health Leaders MediaAugust 1, 2012 Many teens have permanent ringing in the earsOne in five high schoolers has READ MORE

August 12, 2013 News Clips Youth Concussion FAQ; How widespread are concussions among youth athletes?An estimated 400,000 high school athletes sustained concussions while participating in five major male sports and four major female sports during the 2005-2008 school years.iIn addition, experts believe that the prevalence of sports-related concussions among young people in all sports is READ MORE

August 26, 2013 News Clips Journal Review AAP Recommendations for Male Adolescent, Young Adult HealthThe authors reviewed available literature on young men’s health and summarized best clinical practices to meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Healthy 2020 objectives for adolescents and young adults. While offering recommendations for overall care of males in this READ MORE

September 4, 2013 News Clips Recess can reduce bullying and prepare kids to learn, research saysWhen D.C. students discovered last week that recess had been cut to a minimum of 15 minutes per day, many parents launched an immediate protest. Others merely shrugged.  “Teachers should be teaching. Students should be learning,” wrote Steve Sweeney, a parent READ MORE