U.S. High School Students Showing Overall Improvements in Health-Related Behaviors

Today′s high school students are less likely to engage in many health risk behaviors than high school students in the early 1990s, according to the 2007 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), released this week by the Centers for Disease Control...

Teen Sexual Activity Increases, Contraceptive Use Decreases

Almost half (48%) of high school teens say they have had sex–an increase of 2% between 2005 and 2007, according to data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During the same time period, the proportion of high school...