Adolescent Boy

Recent research reveals that Covid-19 lockdowns have led to premature brain ageing in adolescents, with girls showing more significant changes than boys.

Hearing a teenager's request against his conviction in a rape case, Calcutta High Court issued guidelines for adolescent boys and girls asking them to control their sexual urges and also respect the dignity and bodily autonomy of other gender.

The curriculum uses interactive classroom discussions to encourage adolescent boys and girls to reflect on the culturally-embedded gender norms, roles and discriminatory practices.

Nitish Kumar government's well intentioned scheme to provide free sanitary pads to adolescent girls enrolled in government schools seems to have gained un-intentioned male beneficiaries

"You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair," said Sussanne Khan

Driving is one those eminent skills for both the genders as it makes them independent. However, for many of us men it's a must. The adolescence phase when a boy evolves as a man is generally the period when he brushes up his driving skills after he has qualified for his license at 18. A grown-up man is generally believed to know how to drive and ma...

A study from the United States found that girls and women are reported to be less physically activity than their male counterparts.

Research shows that the adolescent years are the best years to learn. Click here to know some interesting facts about the brain.

A new form of self-harm appears to emerge in teens. Yes, teens have now started "Digital self-harm," "self-trolling," or "self-cyberbullying," where they post mean things about themselves online anonymously.

For the study, researchers enrolled 78 gay and bisexual young men, ages 15 to 17, from six U.S. cities. The participants all tested negative for HIV at the start of the study, but were at high risk for an infection. Read the report here.

Mumbai: Inside a community centre at Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, Umair Khan teaches a group of young boys the difference between good and bad touch. The 20-year-old is a community organiser with Sneha – Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action. He works with the NGO’s youth programme Ehsaas which, since 2013, has reached out to over 6,000...

Underweight boys had a 24 per cent increased risk of being admitted with asthma: study

Your body mass index (BMI) may determine the risk of asthma in childhood. While overweight adolescent girls may be at a higher risk of hospital admission due to asthma, boys who are underweight are likely to be at risk of being admitted with the lungs disease, a study said.

An adolescent boy found the mummified body of a man hanging in a closet while exploring what appeared to be an abandoned house in southwestern Ohio.

He had molested scores of adolescent boys, possibly more, in a career spanning 10 schools on four continents.

Recent research reveals that Covid-19 lockdowns have led to premature brain ageing in adolescents, with girls showing more significant changes than boys.

Hearing a teenager's request against his conviction in a rape case, Calcutta High Court issued guidelines for adolescent boys and girls asking them to control their sexual urges and also respect the dignity and bodily autonomy of other gender.

The curriculum uses interactive classroom discussions to encourage adolescent boys and girls to reflect on the culturally-embedded gender norms, roles and discriminatory practices.

Nitish Kumar government's well intentioned scheme to provide free sanitary pads to adolescent girls enrolled in government schools seems to have gained un-intentioned male beneficiaries

"You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair," said Sussanne Khan

Driving is one those eminent skills for both the genders as it makes them independent. However, for many of us men it's a must. The adolescence phase when a boy evolves as a man is generally the period when he brushes up his driving skills after he has qualified for his license at 18. A grown-up man is generally believed to know how to drive and ma...

A study from the United States found that girls and women are reported to be less physically activity than their male counterparts.

Research shows that the adolescent years are the best years to learn. Click here to know some interesting facts about the brain.

A new form of self-harm appears to emerge in teens. Yes, teens have now started "Digital self-harm," "self-trolling," or "self-cyberbullying," where they post mean things about themselves online anonymously.

For the study, researchers enrolled 78 gay and bisexual young men, ages 15 to 17, from six U.S. cities. The participants all tested negative for HIV at the start of the study, but were at high risk for an infection. Read the report here.

Mumbai: Inside a community centre at Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, Umair Khan teaches a group of young boys the difference between good and bad touch. The 20-year-old is a community organiser with Sneha – Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action. He works with the NGO’s youth programme Ehsaas which, since 2013, has reached out to over 6,000...

Underweight boys had a 24 per cent increased risk of being admitted with asthma: study

Your body mass index (BMI) may determine the risk of asthma in childhood. While overweight adolescent girls may be at a higher risk of hospital admission due to asthma, boys who are underweight are likely to be at risk of being admitted with the lungs disease, a study said.

An adolescent boy found the mummified body of a man hanging in a closet while exploring what appeared to be an abandoned house in southwestern Ohio.

He had molested scores of adolescent boys, possibly more, in a career spanning 10 schools on four continents.