Teens and Smoking
In the United States, more than 3 million 12- to 17-year olds smoke, despite massive advertising campaigns about the risks involved.

Tips for Teens: The Truth About Alcohol
Whatever you call it -- Booze, Sauce, Brews, Brewskis, Hooch, Hard Stuff, Juice -- alcohol affects the brain.

PCOS
Early puberty is the first sign of PCOS. One in seven women with PCOS had developed endometrial cancer by age 22.

Intersex
Is the new baby a boy, or a girl? One out of every two thousand births presents parents with a sudden gender dilemma. A tradition of secrecy means most parents are totally unprepared.

Trim Kids
The proven 12-week plan that has helped thousands of children achieve a healthier weight.

Children and Cars
America's most pressing child health issue.

Myopia: Room Light In Early Childhood and Nearsightedness
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia found that children who slept with either a room light or night light on until age 2 were more likely to later develop myopia (nearsightedness).

The Libido Killers - Ritalin and ADD/ADHD
Are American boys being drugged into submissiveness for the convenience of their teachers?

Male Pattern Baldness
The damage isn't just cosmetic. Excess DHT is linked to other serious health issues for men.

Slow Urination
Good urinary health is important at any age.

Tamiflu, Relenza: Will They Protect Your Family from Bird Flu?
Doubts arise as W.H.O. builds supply of millions of doses of Tamiflu.

Male Fertility
Reanalysis of international data finds
sharp decline in sperm density.

The National Prostate Cancer Coalition
Prostate cancer is a devastating disease that will kill over 41,000 men this year. Funding for prostate cancer research pales in comparison to that for diseases with a similar mortality rate.

Is Child Circumcision Obsolete or the Cutting Edge of American Ingenuity?
We examine here some of the reasons why 100 years ago the American medical establishment began to surgically alter the genitals of children. American medical professionals are increasingly reluctant to perform elective child circumcisions, as are their colleagues in all other Western countries.

In recent years most males born in the western United States or in Europe have been kept intact (not circumcised). That last bastion of child circumcision practice in the whole of the Western world, the eastern half of the United States, has recently seen such a rapid decline in frequency that soon the majority of male children born here will remain intact as well.

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