http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. While little is known about the causes of glioma, researchers at the National Cancer Institute have found that this rare but often deadly form of brain cancer may be linked to early life physical activity and height. http://www.physorg.com/news174057842.html Medicine & Health Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:27:10 EST news174057842 Insecticide treated mosquito nets reduce the chances of developing life-threatening malaria in Africa, however recent research shows that older children are the least well protected by nets in the community. The research, published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, has found that parents and their young children were much more likely to have malaria nets than older children. http://www.physorg.com/news173595316.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:30:03 EST news173595316 (AP) -- Health officials say only 13 percent of U.S. high school students get at least three servings of vegetables a day and just 32 percent get two servings of fruit. http://www.physorg.com/news173439643.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:41:05 EST news173439643 75% of the cases of paediatric bipolar disorder are diagnosed late - up to 18 months - due to the symptoms manifesting themselves in a different manner depending on whether the patient is a child or adult. Moreover, 25% of sufferers have a delay in their medical diagnoses of up to three years and four months, according to a study by the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology at the University Hospital of Navarra, in collaboration with the Paediatric Psychopharmacology Unit at the l Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University (Boston, United States). http://www.physorg.com/news172822213.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:11:16 EST news172822213 Two new studies explore how discipline changes during childhood and adolescence, and what family factors affect those changes. They conclude that when parents use physical discipline through childhood, their children experience more behavior problems in adolescence. http://www.physorg.com/news172215316.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:50:02 EST news172215316 Thousands of children and adolescents are using anti-obesity drugs that in the UK are only licensed for use by adults. The number of young people receiving prescriptions for these drugs has increased 15-fold since 1999, but most stop using them before they could expect to see any benefit, according to a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news171175734.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:49:24 EST news171175734 A new study that looks at data on three generations of Oregon families shows that "positive parenting" - including factors such as warmth, monitoring children's activities, involvement, and consistency of discipline - not only has positive impacts on adolescents, but on the way they parent their own children. http://www.physorg.com/news171048458.html Other Sciences Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:50:02 EST news171048458 A moderate aerobic exercise program, without weight loss, can improve insulin sensitivity in both lean and obese sedentary adolescents, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas that permits glucose to enter cells to be used for energy or stored for future use by the body. http://www.physorg.com/news171046994.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:03:26 EST news171046994 (PhysOrg.com) -- As a new mother herself, Brenda Lohman admits to being shocked by the results of a new study she co-authored. It found that among nearly 1,000 low-income families in three major cities, one in four children between the ages of 11 and 16 reported having sex, with their first sexual intercourse experience occurring at the average age of 12.77. http://www.physorg.com/news169399090.html Other Sciences Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:30:02 EST news169399090 Sleep patterns can help predict which adolescents might be at greatest risk for developing depression, a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center has found in a five-year study. http://www.physorg.com/news169373476.html Medicine & Health Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:30:02 EST news169373476 University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) researchers have identified factors that may increase overweight adolescents' risk of engaging in extreme weight control behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, the use of diet pills, laxatives, and diuretics, as well as binge eating. Overweight youth with certain socio-environmental, psychological, and behavioral tendencies, such as reading magazine articles about dieting, reporting a lack of family connectedness, placing a high importance on weight, and reporting having participated in unhealthy weight control behaviors, are more likely to suffer from eating disorders. http://www.physorg.com/news168181002.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:58:27 EST news168181002 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), including a Georgia State University scientist, have found differences between girls and boys in how parts of the brain develop in responding to peer judgments - with girls becoming more preoccupied with how peers view them, while boys become more focused on their place in groups. http://www.physorg.com/news167580730.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:50:06 EST news167580730 New research indicates that screening children for symptoms of depression, the most common mental health disorder in the United States, can begin a lot earlier than previously thought, as early as the second grade. http://www.physorg.com/news167403020.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:51:03 EST news167403020 A well-groomed man gets out of a Mercedes. He's holding a Smartphone and wearing a slick business suit and what appear to be $400 Kenneth Cole shoes. You only catch a glimpse, but you've already drawn conclusions about him. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines children's tendencies to draw conclusions about social roles from the products they see. http://www.physorg.com/news167325677.html Other Sciences Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:40:08 EST news167325677 Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have conducted a "before and after" study of depression and terrorist attacks in adolescents, demonstrating that strong social support from friends is a buffer from depression in terrorism-related stress. http://www.physorg.com/news167316122.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:42:18 EST news167316122 In the United States, adolescence is a time when many teens become less interested in academics. A new longitudinal study has found that this disengagement is greater for American teens than for Chinese teens. http://www.physorg.com/news166885194.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:00:35 EST news166885194 Young American-raised Asian and Pacific Islanders (API), who are in the sexual minority, face psychological and social stresses in dealing with their families' values and ancestral cultures that significantly impact the development of their ethnic and sexual identities. http://www.physorg.com/news166792917.html Other Sciences Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:50:03 EST news166792917 There is no evidence that children next-born after stillbirth are clinically at risk compared to children of non-bereaved mothers, according to a study published today in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. However, the study did find evidence of less optimal mother-child interaction. http://www.physorg.com/news166337101.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:45:24 EST news166337101 Dartmouth researchers have determined that movie characters who smoke, regardless of whether they are "good guys" or "bad guys," influence teens to try smoking. The study, published in the July 2009 issue of the journal Pediatrics, is titled "Adolescent Smoking: Who Matters More, Good Guys or Bad Guys?" http://www.physorg.com/news165668108.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:57:31 EST news165668108 University of Minnesota Medical School researcher Iris Borowsky, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues found that one in seven adolescents believe that it is highly likely that they will die before age 35, and this belief predicted that the adolescents' would engage in risky behaviors. http://www.physorg.com/news165473786.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:56:53 EST news165473786 The social class, the gender and the ethnic group are three essential dimensions, not only in the social differentiation, but also in the affective sexual education of the adolescents, where it is necessary to take part in order to promote sexual and gender equity and prevent gender violence. This is one of the main conclusions of the investigation Affective sexual policy: a sociological approach to affective sexual education", carried out by the researcher of the department of Sociology of the University of Granada Mar Venegas Medina and supervised by professor Francisco Fernández Palomares. http://www.physorg.com/news165057942.html Other Sciences Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:40:02 EST news165057942 Primary care pediatricians may be under-diagnosing sleep disorders in children and teens, according to new research. http://www.physorg.com/news163645594.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:07:26 EST news163645594 (AP) -- Three blockbuster psychiatric drugs currently approved for adults also appear to work in adolescents, though federal health officials have concerns about exposing younger patients to the drugs' side effects. http://www.physorg.com/news163421652.html Medicine & Health Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:54:35 EST news163421652 A new study of Chinese-American youth has found that family obligation, for example caring for siblings or helping elders, plays a positive role in the mental health of Chinese-American adolescents and may prevent symptoms of depression in later teenage years. http://www.physorg.com/news163343011.html Medicine & Health Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:03:52 EST news163343011 Incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children aged under five in Europe is set to double by 2020 over 2005 levels while cases among the under-15s will rise by 70 percent, according to a study published on Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news162708446.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 May 2009 05:52:17 EST news162708446 Helping middle school students with their homework may not be the best way to get them on the honor roll. But telling them how important academic performance is to their future job prospects and providing specific strategies to study and learn might clinch the grades, according to a research review. http://www.physorg.com/news161954388.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 May 2009 12:20:45 EST news161954388 For years, genes have been considered the one and only way biological traits could be passed down through generations of organisms. Not anymore. http://www.physorg.com/news161864762.html Biology Mon, 18 May 2009 11:26:52 EST news161864762 Two-thirds of American teenagers have sex by the time they're 18. A new longitudinal study finds that when adolescents engage in risky sexual activity, fathers respond by increasing their efforts to supervise and monitor their children. http://www.physorg.com/news161604145.html Medicine & Health Fri, 15 May 2009 11:03:19 EST news161604145 Stress may indeed be a direct contributor to childhood obesity. That's according to a new Iowa State University study finding that increased levels of stress in adolescents are associated with a greater likelihood of them being overweight or obese. http://www.physorg.com/news161520563.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 May 2009 11:49:58 EST news161520563 Family and network oriented, stress-reducing care improves level of overall functioning and mental health in adolescents at risk of developing psychosis, suggests a recent Finnish study. http://www.physorg.com/news161515511.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 May 2009 10:25:43 EST news161515511