By POHLA SMITH, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Officials have been telling us for months that the H1N1 virus is, unlike seasonal flu, more likely to hit young people than old. Now a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 36 children 18 or younger were among the 477 swine flu deaths reported between April and Aug. 8. That's about 1 out of every 13 deaths.

Casey Donahoe was no more than 10 when he began experiencing the bitter taste of stomach acid in the back of his throat.

Casey Donahoe was no more than 10 when he began experiencing the bitter taste of stomach acid in the back of his throat.

Surgeon Thomas Jaffe has done penile implants to correct erectile dysfunction in otherwise healthy septuagenarians looking to resume normal sex lives.

If you're a mother wondering how and when to talk about sex with your daughter, here's the advice of author/women's health nurse practitioner Janine Sherman: As soon as you get a good chance.

Mothers who breastfed their children for a combined period of one year were 10 percent less likely to have heart attacks, strokes or heart disease later in life than those who never nursed, according to a study by University of Pittsburgh researchers published in the May issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Walking down locker-lined school corridors or cruising grocery-store aisles and looking side to side for the products she needs can make Paula Calabrese dizzy and "burpy." So do quick movements like jumping out of bed when the alarm sounds.

A University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study shows 265, or 41 percent, out of a group of 647 students at Pitt have smoked tobacco from a hookah, or water pipe, and 173 students -- nearly 88 percent of the 198 people who took part in the centuries-old tradition over the past year -- said they intend to do so again.

PITTSBURGH -- For much of her life, 12-year-old Norah Marsh missed out on many of the pleasures of eating. While her schoolmates enjoyed pizza or hamburgers at lunch, Norah might eat a salad and a grape jelly and Cool Whip sandwich.Sadly, she said, "I couldn't have ice cream when my team won a basketball game."

Eric Malone and a buddy had brand-new paintball guns. Because the eight-time world Jet Ski champion and his pal planned to exchange just a few shots, they left their safety goggles in their shrink-wrapped cases.