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The ills of smoking aren’t lost on anybody who has been keeping up to date with current trends. With smoking being heavily linked to lung cancer, heart disease and a mirage of other problems, it is impossible to ignore the effect that smoking will have on the life of the smoker. In the most recent studies, it was actually revealed that full time smokers may be shortening their lifespan by half.

3 to 7 percent of children who are of the school going age suffer from Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, commonly abbreviated as ADHD. What has been of great concern isn’t just the effect that this has on them at this age but how this will affect them later in life. ADHD affects many activities that play a great role in the futures of children such as education and this means that the condition will undoubtedly have some effect in the later years.

The search for the causes of various forms of cancer has had many suspects and culprits some proving to be innocent with others proving to be a cause of worry. The difficulty in the search for cancer causes is made difficult by the time it usually takes for the cancers to show up after the exposure to the cause; some cancers show up decades after the exposure and this makes the causes that much harder to know.

Whether it is a high speed race or taking part in high risk sports, teenagers are always ready for it. This is why it may come as a surprise to most people that a study recently found that teenagers don’t actually like taking risks. So how is it that a group of people who are constantly engaging in activities that are reckless and dangerous to themselves and others don’t actually like taking risks?

Probiotics are also known as good bacteria and these are microorganisms that are usually said to have a positive effect on the health of the host body in this case human being. These findings will only be part of a mixed string of results that have been acquired in the past.

The problem with each new drug that comes into the market is always the possible side effects which in some cases may even be worse than the problem. However, the only noted side effects of Gardasil were skin infections, which were quite rare and fainting. Both these problems are quite small and were also expected by the researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine study centre in Oakland.

It seems that video games that are active in nature may actually help your children to increase the levels of their physical activities. With the problem of obesity being a constant news item and video games being accused of playing a major role in the obesity problems, it may come as a relief to some parents that there are video games out there that might actually be good for their kids physical health.

Teenage births have been a problem from quite a while in the United States. For a very long time, the number of teen births had been increasing steadily. Over the past few years however, there has been a steady decrease in the number of teenage mothers, and the CDC has now released information that will undoubtedly delight most parents out there. The current birth rate for teen mothers in the U.S. has reached the lowest point since the 40s; a major landmark achievement.

Exposure to solvents may be linked to birth defects after all according to a new research that was conducted by a French team. This news is a cause of worry for many women since those in occupations such as nursing, cleaning, hairdressing and many others require that the women come into contact with these solvents.

The west Nile virus is once again causing quite a bit of a scare as the number of cases continues to increase with each passing day. The current death toll is at 163, and this is an increase from last week’s 147 according to health officials in the U.S. The west Nile virus has already been reported in 48 states, and it has been found to have infected mosquitoes, humans and birds. 3969 of these cases involved people and in 2010 of these cases, the disease was classified as neuroinvasive.