—KIRSTEN ELLERMAN, 20, a junior at Iowa State University. Research suggests that casual sex is the norm when it comes to romance on campus, taking the place of dating and committed relationships. That's in part because women (56%) now outnumber men on U.S. college campuses, so men don't have to work as hard anymore to [...]
Drop in the national birth rate from 2007 to 2009, the steepest decline in any two-year period in the past 30 years — coinciding with the recession — according to a government data on women aged 15-44. The birth rate fell in nearly every demographic group and U.S. state, with particularly large declines of 9% [...]
The overwhelming majority of college women — 93% — engage in “fat talk.” You know, in the “Ugh, I feel so fat in these jeans” vein of griping. Many women say they think fat talking with their friends makes them feel better about their bodies, but a new study suggests the opposite may be true.
In a field in which the meetings and prayers of 12-step treatment are among the most accepted ways to help people with drug addiction, consumers have little way of knowing which rehabs are genuinely evidence-based and which simply offer faith healing masquerading as medicine.
Japanese authorities have proposed the precautionary measure of harvesting and banking stem cells from the bone marrow of workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, in order to transplant the cells back into those who may become exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
Earlier this year, I wrote about the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission’s (CPSC) decision to re-examine the safety record of crib bumpers in light of 52 infant deaths in 20 years. Now, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is pre-empting the agency’s process and calling on parents to stop using the pads that cushion the [...]
Thin may be the American ideal, but that view appears to have gone global, a new study finds.
We’ve become a rather germ-phobic society, what with our antibacterial soaps, hand sanitizers, automatic water faucets and self-flushing toilets — all of which are supposed to reduce our contact with potential disease-causing bugs. But it turns out that at least one pathogen-fighting strategy may actually be exposing us to more germs, rather than fewer.
A comprehensive survey of overall health county-by-county in the U.S. confirms a few things we already know to be true: being poor is bad for your health. So is having low education, not having a job and having less access to grocery stores and farmer’s markets for fresh food.
Advice around breast-feeding can drive new mothers mad, but a new study suggests that the long pregnancies and lactation periods of our prehistoric mamas are responsible for the relatively big brains that differentiate humans from other animals.
