Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Illness and specific physical health conditions

Two soccer players collide on the field.

Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly smallpox disease without his parents' informed consent.

As in previous books in this critically acclaimed series, Brynie polled hundreds of high school students across the country to find out what they wanted to know most about their immune system.

And these are they.

'I mean to do something grand.

Ladybird Do You Know?

Cancer hits hard at any age, but it is especially challenging for teens who must battle their disease while negotiating the tricky terrain of adolescence.

A self-help guide for youth, Juvenile Arthritis: The Ultimate Teen Guide is also useful to family members, friends, and caregivers of those suffering from the disease.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder strikes one in fifty adults.

The increasing cost of health care in the United States and disappointment with conventional, or Western, medical practices has led people to seek different, more natural ways to maintain a healthy mind and body.

Thousands of young people are diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome (TS) each year.

Between one and two million people in the United States are known to have lupus.

Allergens are all around us: in the air, on our pets, and in our food.

An estimated 245,225 people in the United States are currently living with leukemia or are in remission.

Two-thirds of adults and nearly one-third of children in the United States are overweight or obese.

Heart disease, hypertension, nerve damage, vision problems, liver damage.

USA TODAY, the Nation's No.

More than twenty million people in the United States suffer from asthma, a disease of the lungs.

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Shannon was 13 and she wanted to die.

Each year, more than one million Americans are diagnosed with skin cancer, and it affects people of all ages.

With the 2009 outbreak of the deadly H1N1 flu, popularly known as "e;swine flu,"e; people across the globe crowded emergency rooms and clinics for treatment.

"e;The silent killer.

Tainted peanuts, deadly hamburgers, recalled tomatoes.

"e;Anorexia, bulimia signal a troubled body and soul"e; cried a headline in USA TODAY, the Nation's No.

This easy-to-read guide provides specific information that teens can use to better monitor and manage their illness and improve their quality of life while living with asthma.

Paige Rawl was an ordinary girl.

Being a teenager can be tricky.

Perfect for fans of Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls, and with beautiful colour illustrations throughout, Cappy and The Whale is a unique and wonderful Ukrainian story which Puffin are proud to publish in English for the very first time.

A funny, bittersweet and irresisitible teenage romance, perfect for fans of Gayle Forman's If I Stay, Jenny Downham's Before I Die or Lauren Oliver's Before I FallA funny, bittersweet teenage romance for those who loved Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher.

'I can't remember how old I was when I first started collecting stamps.

From the infamous Black Death to the 1918 flu to COVID-19, disease outbreaks have always marked human history.

From the infamous Black Death to the 1918 flu to COVID-19, disease outbreaks have always marked human history.