Researchers followed 5,661 adolescents who visited Ontario emergency rooms for self-harm. They also tracked 10,731 similar teens seen in the ER for other reasons
Men who were overweight as teens may be more likely to develop a rare type of heart muscle damage that can cause heart failure than men who maintained a healthy weight during adolescence
GAZA: A 15-year-old Palestinian youth died on Saturday after being shot the previous day by Israeli troops during protests along the Gaza border, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Israeli forces have killed 42 Palestinians since Gaza residents began staging protests along the border fence on March 30. The demonstrators are pressing for a right of return for refugees and their descendants to what is now Israel.
The teenager killed was identified as Azzam Aweida. Hundreds of people gathered at his home in the…
CHARSADDA: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police on Thursday claimed to have arrested one of the suspects who allegedly tried to rape a teenage girl in Charsadda district of the province, ARY News reported.
According to ARY News correspondent, police has nabbed one of the two men who on Wednesday "tried to rape" a girl but fled after tremors jolted the area.
The suspects also filmed the incident, but escaped after a earthquake struck the area.
SP Charsadda said that one of the suspects Azam Bashir has been arrested while…
LAHORE: The Child Protection Bureau on Tuesday conducted a raid in Muslim Town area of Lahore and recovered a teenage housemaid who was alleged tortured by her employers, ARY News reported.
The girl named Palwasha, aged fourteen, hails from the rural area of Sardarpura near Lahore and was working at the house of Imran Sheikh since the last three years.
She was taken to the Muslim Town police station where a complaint against her employers. She claimed that Imran Sheikh and his wife used to regularly torture her and…
DHAKA: Bangladesh on Tuesday began training thousands of teenage girls to fight cyber crime, citing an "alarming" rise in social media-related abuses mostly targeting adolescents.
Police said online harassment had grown alarmingly with the rise in smart phone use in Bangladesh, and teenage girls were the main targets.
More than 10,000 school-age girls will take part in government workshops around the country in April and May to teach them what to look out for and how to respond.
"Every day, we have 10-12 complaints…
TACNA, Peru: Two teenage girls were rushed to hospital on Saturday after they were "driven mad by a demonic Whatsapp" message.
The eerie "supernatural attack" left the young sisters "babbling and whining" on the floor of their room.
Family members were terrified to discover the pair "mad and incoherent".
The father filmed the pair in the early hours of the morning at their home while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
The video saw the two girls making strange high-pitched noises while laying down on the…