Locate teen health information, including teen sexuality, teen pregnancy, mental health and other teen health issues.
Articles
- Asthma in children: Creating an asthma action plan
- Bullying: How parents can help
- COVID-19 (coronavirus) in babies and children
- Children and divorce: Helping kids after a breakup
- Children and gender identity: Supporting your child
- College depression: What parents need to know
- Dehydration and youth sports: Curb the risk
- Fall safety for kids: How to prevent falls
- Healthy body image: Tips for guiding girls
- Helping children cope: Tips for talking about tragedy
- Inhalant abuse: Is your child at risk?
- Learning disorders: Know the signs, how to help
- Mental illness in children: Know the signs
- Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and COVID-19
- Nutrition for kids: Guidelines for a healthy diet
- Parenting skills: Tips for raising teens
- Performance-enhancing drugs and teen athletes
- Preparing your child for menstruation
- Screen time and children: How to guide your child
- Sex education: Talking to your teen about sex
- Stepfamilies: How to help your child adjust
- Strength training: OK for kids?
- Teen drug abuse: Help your teen avoid drugs
- Teen eating disorders: Tips to protect your teen
- Teen smoking: 10 ways to keep teens smoke-free
- Teen smoking: How to help your teen quit
- Teen suicide: What parents need to know
- Teen texting: Help your teen avoid the risks
- Teen weight loss: Healthy habits count
- Teenage pregnancy: Helping your teen cope
- Teens and sex: Protecting your teen's sexual health
- Teens and social media use: What's the impact?
- Treating asthma in children ages 12 and older
- Underage drinking: Talking to your teen about alcohol
- Why is your teen so tired?
Conditions
- Absence seizure
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children
- Child abuse
- Childhood asthma
- Childhood schizophrenia
- Choroid plexus carcinoma
- Congenital heart defects in children
- Convergence insufficiency
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Growing pains
- Growth plate fractures
- Headaches in children
- Juvenile fibromyalgia
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Lazy eye (amblyopia)
- Medulloblastoma
- Mesenteric lymphadenitis
- Multiple sclerosis
- Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Osteochondritis dissecans
- Pectus carinatum
- Pediatric brain tumors
- Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea
- Pineoblastoma
- Progeria
- Reye's syndrome
- Rheumatic fever
- Rickets
- Ruptured eardrum (perforated eardrum)
- Scarlet fever
- Scoliosis
- Separation anxiety disorder
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
- Stickler syndrome
- Triple X syndrome
- Type 1 diabetes in children
- Type 2 diabetes in children
FAQs
- Acute flaccid myelitis: What is it and can it be prevented?
- Asthma triggers: Are hard flooring surfaces better than carpet?
- Bipolar disorder in children: Is it possible?
- Car sickness in children: Can I prevent it?
- Concussion in children: What are the effects?
- Dental braces: When to start
- Enterovirus D68: How can I protect my child?
- Flu shots for kids: Does my child need a flu shot?
- Hygiene hypothesis: Early germ exposure prevents asthma?
- Kids and exercise: How much activity do they need?
- Recurring strep throat: When is tonsillectomy useful?
- Suggestions as you consider your future career
- Use these tips to help children prevent diabetes