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Boston Teens Pick Top Ten Healthy/Unhealthy Relationship Songs of 2011
Patch.com
Boston teens worked with the city's Public Health Commission to choose "Marvin's Room" by Drake as the unhealthiest song (in relationship terms) in 2011. By Boston Public Health Commission Drake's "Marvins Room" was chosen as the Unhealthiest ...

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Teen pregnancy rate high in Port
Times Herald-Record
The latest New York state Department of Health figures, from 2007-09, showed Port Jervis has the fourth-highest teen pregnancy rate, at 60.66 per 1000, and third-highest teen birth rate, at 33.4 per 1000, in Orange County. Consequently, Maternal Infant ...

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Md. Senate panel considers eliminating indoor teen tanning, some say current ...
Washington Post
“It is a deadly health risk and we should not be allowing minors to do it.” Last year, California enacted a law to keep minors out of tanning beds and in 2009 Howard County became the first jurisdiction in Maryland to ban tanning for teenagers.
Maryland Legislation Introduced to Prohibit Indoor Tanning for MinorsSacramento Bee
Idaho lawmakers consider legislation to ban minors from using indoor tanning bedsThe Republic

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Teens report emotional abuse more prevalent
Pioneer Press
"It's not healthy, for one thing, because you need your privacy," she said. During the study, in focus groups with more than 200 youths, they reported "that while physical abuse occurs, it's emotional and verbal abuse that they see most often in teen ...

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Does sex ed keep girls from becoming teen moms?
Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study, states with more comprehensive sex education programs had lower teen birth rates -- but the effect seemed to be due more to political, religious and social differences between those states than the sex ed ...
Study looks at impact of sex education in US schoolsTrustLaw

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Zee News

Fewer teens getting pregnant, having abortions study shows
CNN (blog)
Fewer teens are getting pregnant now, than at any point in the last 40 years, says a new report. Researchers at the Guttmacher Institute, a sexual and reproductive health think tank, say the pregnancy rate among teens is down 42%, ...
Teen pregnancy rates reach 'dramatic' 40-year low in USFox News
Teen pregnancy rates in US drop to 40-year low, study showsGlobalPost
Teen Pregnancies Hit New Low, But Disparities RemainNPR (blog)
Wall Street Journal (blog) -msnbc.com
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