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Mount Bachelor AcademyMOUNT BACHELOR ACADEMY

Mount Bachelor Academy offers powerful emotional growth workshops not available in most programs and is uniquly specialized to help teens with adoption issues. The Academy's highly skilled teaching faculty and staff members have proven records in working with children who may have displayed behavior that is symptomatic of low self-esteem and self-concept.

Teens More Likely to Have Complications from Giving Blood

Teens who donate blood have three times the complications of adult donors. However, most of these complications are not serious, such as lightheadedness, sweating, and bruises from needles.

Researchers analyzed 1.7 million donations from the year 2006, according to Dr. Anne Eder, lead author of this study and a medical officer with the Red Cross.

People ages 16 to 19 represent 15% of blood donations. Their complication rate is 11% compared to less than 3% for donors over age 20. Teens also experienced more serious and rarer complications such as concussions, mostly as a consequence of falling and fainting.

Dr. Eder said that some teens' low weight and small statures might play a role in their increased rates of complications. This study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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