Parents who talk to their kids about their own, past drug may not be helping their kids to avoid drugs.
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Closeness in a Relationship: Is it Overrated?
Closeness in a relationship doesn’t necessarily follow the more-is-better approach.
Our Personalities Are Constantly Changing, Even if We Think They’re Not
We admit we’ve changed in the past, but mistakenly believe we’ll be the same person in the future
Can Caring for Your Aging Parents Hurt Your Career — or Your Paycheck?
Helpful tips on how to be there for your ill and aging parents, while protecting your job and the financial well-being of you and your family
Family MattersParenting
Parents — Especially Dads — Are Happier than their Childless Pals. (Happy Father’s Day.)
Despite a boatload of research linking parenthood with all sorts of negative outcomes, a three-part study finds that parents — and dads, in particular — are decidedly happier than nonparents.
Understanding Psychopathic and Sadistic Minds
Psychopathic serial killers are a source of infinite public fascination. If best-selling novels, hit TV series and popular films are any indication, you’d think real-life Hannibal Lecters were constantly running amok in the U.S. …
Family MattersPediatric Genetics
Why a Mother Would Have Aborted Her Son
In her essay, Emily Rapp freely admits she would have aborted her son, who has Tay-Sachs disease, a disorder she expects will kill him this year. What would Rick Santorum say?
How People-Pleasing May Lead to Overeating
Two new studies remind us that eating habits may be strongly influenced by people around us.
How Will Komen’s Split with Planned Parenthood Affect Women’s Health?
Will women be left without breast cancer screening services, now that Susan G. Komen for the Cure has stopped funding Planned Parenthood?
The Chronic Fatigue Retraction: Good Science Takes Time
It was a long time coming: a journal retracts a controversial 2009 paper linking a virus to chronic fatigue. The good news? Faulty data can’t hide.
Device Doesn’t Help Prevent Patients From Waking During Surgery
About one in 1,000 surgery patients experience the trauma of awareness during anesthesia, and later remember feeling pain and distress during their operation. Many go on to develop symptoms of posttraumatic stress. So hospitals …
Study: Blood Pressure Drug May Treat Senior Moments
A drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat high blood pressure may have an equally important effect on brain function, according to new research in monkeys.
Studies: Why Diet Sodas Are No Benefit to Dieters
More bad news, diet soda drinkers: data presented recently at the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) Scientific Sessions suggest that diet drinks may actually contribute to weight gain and that the artificial sweeteners in …
