Sjolund said that they found that lower results on IQ tests in Swedish adolescent men were associated with a higher consumption of alcohol, measured in both terms of total intake and binge drinking and it may be that a higher IQ results in healthier lifestyle choices.

Zee News, February 22, 2015

A significant rise in the number of boys and young men suffering from eating disorders has contributed to a worrying 30pc jump in reports of the illness in Ireland, new figures obtained by the Sunday Independent reveal.

The Independent, February 22, 2015

Planned Parenthood has released new data on parents' understanding of HPV and the HPV vaccine, showing that parents need more information about the vaccine and why it is important to vaccinate their children for HPV.

ENewsPF, February 20, 2015

"The most important problem is that many healthcare providers are not making a strong recommendation for the vaccine in the same way that they recommend other recommended vaccines," said Melinda Wharton, MD, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. 

MedPage Today, February 20, 2015

A team led by researchers from the University of Iowa found that about one in 5,000 boys between the ages of 5 and 9 have either Duchenne muscular dystrophy or Becker muscular dystrophy. The researchers also found that Hispanic boys were struck by the disorders more often than whites or blacks.

US News, February 20, 2015

A new study of the association between IQ-test results and drinking, measured as both total intake and pattern of use, has found that a lower IQ is clearly associated with greater and riskier drinking among young adult men, although their poor performance on the IQ-test may also be linked to other disadvantages.

Medical Express, February 20, 2015

In a nationwide study of UK students' attitudes towards mental health, The Priory Group found 86% agreed there is a stigma attached to mental health issues at university.

Huffington Post UK, February 20, 2015

A Yale researcher shows why the best way to defeat the anti-vaccination movement is to stop debating the subject.

Dan Kahan, a Yale University professor who studies public perceptions of science policy, sees the unfolding partisan divide as a potential health catastrophe. A political attack on an imagined vaccine crisis would be "like going to war with Iraq over 9/11," he says. "It's like WMDs. The threat of the anti-vaccination movement doesn't exist, and going to war with it will cause orders of magnitude more destruction than whatever Jenny McCarthy is doing."

Daily Beast, February 19, 2015

But my primary concern for now has to do not with girls, but with boys like my son and other young men, who are trying to navigate the rocky shores of heterosexual desire themselves, in a culture that routinely offers them up sexually subordinate, compliant and sometimes self-loathing women at the click of a mouse or the price of a movie ticket. What do parents of sons say to them about the draw this story has for women? 

Huffington Post, February 19, 2015

The Toronto Star has apologized for a story highlighting teenagers who had serious side effects after getting vaccinated for the human papilloma virus. A public health nurse at the North Bay-Parry Sound health unit said it could still affect vaccination rates that have been on the rise. "It does have potential to deter people from immunizing their children, immunizing themselves, and it's difficult to undo that damage once it's been done," Jaymie-Lynn Blanchard said.

CBC News, February 18, 2015

Just-released clinical trial results reveal that the new HPV vaccine provides even more protection against cancer than before. But, according to a new survey from Planned Parenthood, parents still have not warmed up to it.

Yahoo News, February 18, 2015

So why don't more Americans get themselves and their children vaccinated? Stoner offers some ideas:

• Mistrust of the vaccine itself and concern that it may cause autism or other harmful conditions.

• Mistrust of the medical profession and/or government recommendations about vaccination (the belief that kids are getting too many shots, for no good reason).
• Religious objections to the vaccine among some religious groups.

Belief that getting the HPV vaccine will cause kids to become more sexually active.

Futurity.org, February 17, 2015

Sex ed teacher Colin Adamo has a better solution for this particular problem. He's launched a website that uses blunt talk and a sense of humor  to really talk to teen boys about sex and love. Now he's taking that work a step further by creating a graphic novel that deals directly with issues of sex and love. 

Take Part, February 17, 2015

• Male reproductive system may not work properly until after puberty
• They found high levels of DNA mutations in sperm cells of teenage boys
• Findings create 30 per cent higher risk of children being born with defects 
• Could result in conditions such as autism, schizophrenia and spina bifida 
• Research also revealed men have healthiest sperm in their 20s and 30s
• But the number of mutations rises again as they approach the age of 40

Daily Mail, February 17, 2015