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A project of the American Medical Association
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An interactive health question and answer page with new answers each week. Previous answers are stored in a searchable database
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Resources from the American Medical Association
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The Surgeon General's report on adolescents and young adults
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General information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis, and on the work of the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention
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Find out how braces can improve your appearance, improve your health, make you look beautiful. Examine initial data (not verified) that orthodontic treatment could lower your risk of heart disease. View before and after pictures of adult orthodontic patients. Find out about the risks of orthodontics and how to avoid the unsafe dentists
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Information for teens with medical problems
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Underscores individual choice by teens and the exploration of options regarding health behaviour from the University of Toronto Department of Behavioural Science
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Although this site is not specifically oriented toward youth, it provides some useful, basic information about a variety of health related conditions
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Learn what mono is and what can and can not be done to treat it
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Links and resources from the American Medical Association
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Discusses sleep needs of adolescents
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While a large part of adolescent medicine involves addressing the medical and treatment needs of the adolescent's illness, condition, or injury, a significant component of adolescent medicine also anticipates and assesses developmental complications associated with the healthcare needs of the specific medical problem
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Applying latent growth curve analysis to a sample of 310 adolescents, this study demonstrates that level of and changes in observed parental behavior are liked to the level of and changes in adolescent physical health status, respectively, through adolescent perception of parental support
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Physical Health