Teenagers News

Chicago - Today bullies still exist in an alarming number of schools. Disabled people are often targets. One girl, however, is positively fighting back with many methods.

For years, drinking alcohol and getting drunk in public was something that most women and girls in the U.K. would have seen as socially unacceptable. But times have changed, and young women, wanting "to be cool" are instead getting falling down drunk.

Teenagers today may be more likely to contract one type of herpes virus than teenagers in years past, a new study finds.

Glasgow - Now parents have yet another reason to encourage their teenagers to exercise each day - it could improve how they perform in class.

Buenos Aires - Police in Argentina have arrested a 19-year-old man who is being accused of heading a gang of hackers who targeted international money transfer and gambling websites.

The teen birthrate in the United States set another new record low in 2011, according to the latest federal data released on Thursday.

A U.S. judge has ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to lift its ban on emergency contraception for women aged 16 and under. This is an important decision, for both those for or against, in relation to social policy.

According to a Vital Signs report, nearly one in five teen births in the U.S. is a repeat birth. However, it also stands that teen births have fallen over the past 20 years.

Ottawa - Three Ottawa teenage girls appear in court yesterday allegedly used social media sites such as Facebook to force young girls into prostitution.

Cancer deaths among young people in the U.K. have fallen in last 30 years, according to a new study from the charity Cancer Research U.K.