More girls reported perpetrating psychological and physical dating violence while more boys reported perpetrating sexual violence. Girls more often reported feeling fear or intimidation than did boys. At younger ages, boys more often reported fear and injury perpetration and sexual and injury victimization, but as age increased this pattern reversed or disappeared. By age 17, injury victimization and use of self-defense did not differ by gender, according to the results published in Pediatrics. 

Deccan Chronicle, January 30, 2016

"I think the problem is what to do with the health departments and the physicians' offices that have the 4vHPV vaccine on hand,"   Jose R. Romero, MD,   professor of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, told   Infectious Disease News. "Right now, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has not made a recommendation to begin vaccination with 4vHPV and then switch to 9vHPV. They're just saying, 'Use what you have and use it up.' " Since protection offered by the five additional strains in 9vHPV rises only 4% in males vs. 14% in females, one strategy of using up remaining 4vHPV vaccine is to administer it only to males.

Helio, January 29, 2016

Excess weight can delay or speed up puberty in young boys, depending on how many extra pounds they carry, a new study suggests. Overweight boys tend to enter and finish puberty somewhat earlier than usual, researchers found in a study of nearly 3,900 males aged 6 to 16. But boys who have become obese appear to go through puberty slower than boys who weigh less, according to study results published Jan. 27 in the journal Pediatrics .

69 NCI-designated Cancer Centers Urge HPV Vaccination for the Prevention of Cancer

"Together we, the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Cancer Centers, recognize these low rates of HPV vaccination as a serious public health threat. HPV vaccination represents a rare opportunity to prevent many cases of cancer that is tragically underused. As national leaders in cancer research and clinical care, we are compelled to jointly issue this call to action."

Joint Statement, January 27, 2016

Kids Help Phone , a charity that operates the only national helpline for young people, reports that less than a quarter of young people who turn to the service are male, even though more than 75 per cent of youth who die by suicide are male. Suicide is a leading cause of death among youth aged 15 to 24, accounting for 24 per cent of all deaths among that age group.

Brockman said there's a misconception that males have to be tough and look after things on their own, or they risk being labelled weak. They expected the number of male callers to be smaller, but "it was a surprise it was so low."It doesn't totally surprise me because it lines up to what we're seeing later in life," Nash said.She commended a new initiative by the Kids Help Phone for doing just that with brotalk.ca. The website, launched late last year is designed just for males in an effort to get more of them to start talking. "We need to engage guys in the conversation ... to ask them what's helpful."

The Record, January 26, 2016

Fourth-year medical student Alvin Chan is taking a novel approach to raise HPV awareness ... a comic novel approach. He and his colleagues created and evaluated a fotonovela (photographic comic book) designed to improve human papillomavirus vaccination acceptance in the United States, particularly among Latinos.To promote HPV vaccine acceptance, Chan and his colleagues created a bilingual English and Spanish-language fotonovela formatted with photographs and text bubbles into a comic book-style soap opera. The fotonovela aims not only to educate adolescent and young adult readers about the benefits of vaccination, but also to encourage dialogue about HPV prevention between patients and healthcare providers. The study demonstrated that our fotonovela can be used as an educational-entertainment tool to impact HPV vaccine knowledge, attitudes and intentions.  

Newswise, January 26, 2016

Pharmacy students recognize the true dangers of this disease and want to elevate the level of awareness about vaccinating against Type B Meningitis, while encouraging those in their own age group to get the shots. To their credit, they've created a social media effort for their Operation Immunization effort that will encourage students to share photos from their "shot day" and use #menbnotatmyu in their posts. The fact is, many students simply don't know about Type B vaccinations, which were only approved for use within the past year. It's hoped this student-to-student effort will educate and empower them to get the shots.

Idaho Statesman, January 25, 2016

HIV Testing Rates Still Low Among Teens, Young Adults: CDC

Only one in five sexually active high school students has been tested for HIV, and young adults aren't doing much better at finding out their status, U.S. health officials report. As a result, an estimated 50 percent of young Americans infected with the virus that causes AIDS don't know they have it, the researchers found.

Healthfinder, January 19, 2016

The Weekly News Roundup is produced by The Partnership for Male Youth and is released every Monday. 

For more information contact Dennis J. Barbour, JD. News Roundup editor and President/CEO of the Partnership, at dbarbour@partnershipformaleyouth.org.

The  Partnership for Male Youth is a collaboration among 23 national organizations and representation from six federal agencies. It is led by a multidisciplinary and multispecialty steering committee and advisory council. The Partnerships's flagship effort, released in January 2014, is  The Health Provider Toolkit for Adolescent and Young Adult Males.