With Thanksgiving Day just around the corner, it’s hard not to think about people who don’t have enough food to be thankful for. A new study [PDF] offers a bit of good news and bad about hunger in America: the number of people …
Study: Many Youth Offenders Have History of Traumatic Brain Injury
A survey of 197 youth offenders in England — boys aged 11 to 19 who have been incarcerated — found that they are three times more likely to have had a traumatic brain injury (TBI) than their non-offending counterparts.
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George W. Bush, His Mom and Her Fetus: Not So Weird After All
It’s America’s fixation with happily ever after that’s partially responsible for the uneasy silence with which we approach miscarriage.
Study: Playing Tetris to Prevent PTSD Flashbacks
In a follow-up study to their original 2009 research, Oxford University scientists found that playing Tetris after a traumatic event may help prevent flashbacks, the intrusive and unwanted memories of trauma that are the hallmark …
Cigarette Warning Labels From Around the World
How do the FDA’s proposed new cigarette warning labels stack up against the graphic warnings already in use in other countries?
Babies Versus Bullies: Why Little Ones Can Help
Wealth and Health From a $1 Cigarette Tax
If you’re looking for a true stinker of a campaign slogan, you couldn’t do much better than “Vote for me, I’ll raise your taxes!” (Don’t believe it? Ask Walter Mondale. It ain’t easy to lose 49 states.) But suppose you changed …
U.S. Cigarette Warning Labels Are About to Get Graphic
Cigarette packages currently come with a tidy black-bordered warning label, reminding users that smoking causes lung cancer, birth defects and heart disease. Dutiful, yes, and easily disregarded.
Fighting Teen Drug Use with Plain Facts
Are you smarter than a high-schooler on drugs? The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has declared Nov. 8–14 National Drug Facts Week, with more than 60 events planned online and around the country to help prevent teen …
Why are Anorexics More Likely to Have Unplanned Pregnancies and Abortions?
Many women — and doctors too — believe that women with anorexia stop menstruating. First of all, that’s not true. And secondly, here’s a quick fertility refresher: just because a woman doesn’t get her period doesn’t …
Study: Teen Girls More Likely to Have Risky Sex Than Teen Boys
A doctoral candidate at Arizona State University made a surprising discovery during the course of her dissertation research on the impact of early sexual health education.