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The teen years can be emotionally difficult, but blogging can help adolescents to open up and become more socially confident
Many studies (along with casual observation in any home with a teenager) have associated nighttime media use — video gaming, Internet surfing and TV time — with sleep deficits in teens. But the latest research fine tunes those findings, suggesting that while some types of media may indeed keep teens up too late, others may [...]
Getting pregnant and having a baby can turn the most confident woman into an uncertain, anxiety-wracked ball of nerves. There are questions like this: is the pain in my belly a sign of my uterus expanding or of impending miscarriage? And, once the baby arrives, this: What is this rash? What is this fever? And [...]
As anyone in a household with infants or toddlers knows, bedtime can be a nightmare. But that’s where technology, in the form of Web-based sleep counseling, can help.
Lots of kids younger than 6 can’t even read, but literacy — or lack thereof — is hardly an obstacle when it comes to Childhood 2.0: a quarter of kids under age 6 are venturing online regularly, according to data released this week by the research organization affiliated with Sesame Street. Meanwhile, 59% of their [...]
Percentage of people with Internet access who use the Web to seek advice about health, medical conditions and medications, according to a survey by Bupa Health Pulse. However, the survey found only 25% of those people say they check the sources of that information [via Reuters]
We’ve all done it — searched medical conditions and symptoms online, hoping to self-diagnose what those mysterious red bumps are, and wishing against all odds that our search offers good news (“Please, please tell me these aren’t bedbug bites”).
When a Rutgers University freshman allegedly streamed video on the Internet of his roommate’s homosexual encounter in their dorm room, leading the roommate to leap to his death from the George Washington Bridge, it highlighted the strange new technocratic world kids — and all of us, for that matter — inhabit.
Fueling the debate over the existence of internet addiction, and new study from researchers at the University of Leeds finds that people who compulsively browse, chat and play online have higher rates of moderate to severe depression than people who aren’t compulsively driven to use the internet. Additionally, people with addictive tendencies toward internet use [...]
The internet and cell phones are bringing people together, not tearing us apart—at least, according to a new survey released today by the Pew Internet and American Life project. The research followed up a shocking 2006 study, which found that American social networks were rapidly contracting and that 25% of Americans reported that they had [...]
Although arthritis is extremely common, people still have many misconceptions about the disease. How much do you really know?
