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John Cloud is away on a reporting trip, so our beloved Healthland contributor Meredith Melnick joins us this week and Belinda Luscombe steps in as host. We discuss (and demonstrate) a language trend among women called the “vocal fry,” cast a skeptical eye at research methods on texting and driving, and react to a study [...]
How do you get teens to stop drinking sugary soda? Threaten them with exercise.
Percent drop in the rate of obesity in New York City’s kindergarten through eighth graders, from 21.9% in 2006-07 to 20.7% in 2010-11. Nationwide, rates of child obesity are either plateauing or rising slightly. New York’s health commissioner Dr. Thomas A. Farley attributed the city’s improvements in part to ad campaigns against sugary sodas, efforts [...]
Think twice before snacking on chips while preaching at your toddler to eat his broccoli: new research finds that habits ingrained in childhood may persist in adulthood, even withstanding later social influences, to affect body weight.
Confused about when or what cervical cancer screen you should get? A new study finds that HPV testing may benefit women over 30.
Every minute, 24 Americans suffer sexual or intimate-partner violence, according to an eye-opening new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That adds up to 12 million men and women victimized each year in the United States.
It’s called “vocal fry,” and once you’ve heard it, you’ll start noticing it everywhere.
This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter to the Southern California marketing company 1-800-GET-THIN for using misleading advertising to promote Lap-Band weight-loss surgery.
The latest update to the annual Monitoring the Future survey of drug use in American youth bears mainly good news, at least if your interest is in reducing drug-related harm
Millions of people take statins to lower their cholesterol and reduce their risk of heart disease and death from heart-related events. Now there’s evidence that their medication regimen may also help protect them from dying from another common condition that circulates this time of year — the flu.
