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Article: ADVISORY/Major Health Risks for Teenage Girls, Including Depression, Are Focus of Key Session at 11th Annual Congress on Women's Health May 31-June 3, Hilton Head Island, S.C.
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- May 21, 2003
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ADVISORY...for Saturday-Tuesday (May 31-June 3)
LARCHMONT, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2003
Adolescent girls are at risk for a variety of medical and psychological problems that can accompany the tremendous physical, emotional, and social changes during the teenage years -- which can be overlooked or unrecognized until it is too late.
A special session entitled "The Health of Our Daughters" will focus on "Clinical Depression in Adolescent Girls: A State or a Trait?": "Teenage Alcohol Use: Benign or Malignant;" and "The Dance of Adolescence: Mothers and Daughters -- Holding On and Letting Go."
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