Social media could pose a “profound risk of harm” to children and teenagers, America’s top doctor has said. US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy urged tech companies, policymakers, and parents to “take immediate action to protect kids now”. The warning came in
Riots broke out in Cardiff following the death of two teenagers in a crash. The Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales has said that rumours ciruclated online about the crash being the result of a police chase. Officers were called to
Police have confirmed there was a “loss of life” in a collision that sparked riots in Cardiff that ran into the early hours of the night. The incident “had already occurred when officers arrived” police also stated. On Tuesday morning, South Wales
A dad was killed and his two children were injured when a war-time grenade detonated in their Indiana home. The family was looking through a grandfather’s belongings when they found the weapon. Police say the grenade detonated when one of them pulled
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been pictured back at work as they visited a local youth group in Santa Barbara as part pof Mental Health Awareness Week. The couple learnt firsthand about this generation’s experiences with social media and societal pressures,
U.S. adolescents made fewer weekly emergency department (ED) visits for mental health conditions in Fall 2022 compared to a year earlier, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Thursday. By late 2022, pandemic restrictions had been loosened
For better or worse, social media has become an intrinsic part of adolescence. A majority of teens use YouTube (95%), TikTok (67%), Instagram (62%) and Snapchat (59%), according to a Pew Research Center survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17. In
Anyone who uses Snapchat now has free access to My AI, the app’s built-in artificial intelligence chatbot, first released as a paid feature in February. In addition to serving as a chat companion, the bot can also have some practical purposes, such
Three teenagers killed in a road accident which has devastated the community have been named as their local school spoke of their “profound” shock and sadness. Harry Purcell, 17, Matilda Seccombe, 16, and Frank Wormald, 16, died after the Ford Fiesta they
Four teenagers have suffered life threatening injuries in a horror crash in Warwickshire that saw four air ambulances and six land ambulances called to the scene. A woman and two children have also been taken to hospital with serious injuries – and