adolescents

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They monitored 270 children and adolescents participating in the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health birth cohort.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

When the National Institute of Mental Health says that half of all American adolescents have experienced mental illness, that isn’t psychiatry advancing as a field.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

In 2027, the guidance explains, Title X will fund “voluntary family planning projects” that offer a broad range of “acceptable and effective family planning method” and services for adolescents and infertility.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026

The attack was a tragedy but "not a surprise" to people like her who work with young adults and adolescents, she said.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

We were three adolescents hanging out at a car wash without a car; any cop worth his doughnuts would figure we were up to no good.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan