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Young adults health
Young adults' health
Contraception options
There are many methods of contraception. Here's how to choose the right one for you, considering things like effectiveness, safety and convenience.
Drugs and alcohol
Learn more about alcohol and a range of drugs including marijuana, ice (crystal meth) and MDMA (ecstasy).
Glandular fever
Glandular fever (also called the ‘kissing disease’) is an infectious disease which is common in teenagers and young adults. Learn how glandular fever ...
Hangover cures
While there are no cures for a hangover, here are tips for avoiding one and for easing the symptoms if you have them.
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
Sex is part of a healthy relationship, but can carry risks. Learn about safe sex, STIs, spotting symptoms, and what to do if you get infected.
Warning signs of suicide
This article covers the warning signs of suicide you should look out for and where to seek immediate help and support.
About addiction
This article describes the types, causes and signs of addiction, and where to get help.
Boost your health at work
Learn about things you can do to reduce your risk of work-related ill-health, and to use your time at work to boost your health.
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Supporting young adults | Head to Health
Some of life's biggest changes take place between the ages of 18 and 25, and there are many things that can impact on a young adult’s mental health and wellbeing.
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Young Adult Health - Health Topics - Relationships with parents
Getting on with your parents can sometimes be a challenge when you are young. You may think differently to your parents, and have different values and beliefs, which can lead to conflict at home or breakdowns in communication.
Read more on Women's and Children's Health Network website
Young Adult Health - Health Topics - Depression
Sometimes life sucks. It gets you down and yeah, shit happens but what if you want to get over it but you just cant? Youre angry, sad, even depressed and it wont go away. The stuff here will help you work out whats going on and how you can deal with it.
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Supporting yourself - young adults | Head to Health
Between the ages of 18 and 25, we experience some big changes in our lives. As responsibilities increase, many things can impact on our mental health, so it's important to look after our wellbeing.
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Young Adult Health - Health Topics - Puberty
Puberty is the time in our lives when our sexual reproductive organs mature. This means our bodies become capable of having babies.
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Children and Young Adults | Vision Australia. Blindness and low vision services
The Vision Australia Library has a variety of resources and services for young people who are blind, have low vision or have a print disability.Membership to the library is free, and you can access books in braille and audio formats. As a Vision Australia library member you can access your reading materials from the i-access online library catalogue.Children and young adult audio booksWe have thousands of children and young adult titles across a range of genres.
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Young Adult Health - Health Topics - Headaches
Do you get headaches? Headaches are very common. There are many causes of headaches, and how they need to be managed depends on the cause and how often they happen.
Read more on Women's and Children's Health Network website
Young Adult Health - Health Topics - Vegetarian eating
People become vegetarians for a whole range of reasons.Whatever the reason, it is important to have a well planned and balanced diet in order to be healthy and fit with energy to enjoy life and fun times.There may be health benefits to well-planned and properly balanced vegetarian eating. Butif your vegetarian diet is not well planned and well balanced, your health can be affected.
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Young Adult Health - Health Topics - Exercise and health
Exercise helps keep you fit and strong. It also boosts your energy, reduces stress and helps you feel good. Exercise several times a week that 'raises a sweat' is good but even small amounts can help.
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Young Adult Health - Health Topics - Hygiene
Personal hygiene needs to be part of everybody's daily habits, so that we can help prevent illnesses from spreading. In some places it is easier to practice good hygiene (if for example you have clean water on tap), and for some jobs you need to be very careful about hygiene.
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Methotrexate for high-grade osteosarcoma in children and young adults | Cochrane
As a result of the introduction of chemotherapy, the survival of children with osteosarcoma has improved dramatically. The majority of the currently used treatment protocols are based on a combination of doxorubicin, cisplatin, methotrexate (MTX) and/or ifosfamide, of which MTX seems to be one of the most active drugs. However, in the literature, this has not been unambiguously proven. A well-informed decision on the use of MTX in the treatment of children and young adults diagnosed with primary high-grade osteosarcoma should be based on high quality evidence on both antitumour effects and adverse effects.
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Psychological treatments for depression in young adults and adults born with heart problems | Cochrane
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Cyclophosphamide compared to ifosfamide for the treatment of sarcoma in children and young adults | Cochrane
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Radiotherapy for diffuse brainstem glioma in children and young adults | Cochrane
To assess the effects of conventional radiotherapy (with or without chemotherapy) versus other therapies (including different radiotherapy techniques) for newly diagnosed diffuse brainstem gliomas in children and young adults aged 0 to 21 years.
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Cancer Support for Affected Patients - CanTeen - Canteen Australia
A cancer diagnosis has a big impact on the lives of adolescent and young adult patients. Find out about the help available to Health Professionals from CanTeen.
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Depression in young people - A desktop guide for primary health care professionals
A summary of the Clinical Practice Guidelines: Depression in adolescents and young adults
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Depression in young people
A guide for primary care health professionals A summary of the Clinical Practice Guidelines: Depression in adolescents and young adults
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Motivational interviewing (MI) for alcohol misuse in young adults is not effective enough | Cochrane
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Motivational interviewing (MI) for preventing alcohol misuse in young adults is not effective enough | Cochrane
We reviewed the evidence about the effect of motivational interviewing (MI), a way of counselling to bring out and strengthen reasons for changing behaviour, for preventingalcohol misuse in young people.
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Interventions for treating traumatised permanent front teeth: luxated (dislodged) front teeth | Cochrane
Traumatic injuries to upper front teeth in children and young adults are common. The Cochrane Oral Health Group conducted this review to look at interventions to treat the front permanent (adult) tooth or teeth when they have been displaced from their original position following injury. This review does not include teeth that have been completely knocked out (avulsion).
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