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Trends in sexual behaviors similar for teens who take few health risk and those who take many

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Adolescent health risk behaviors often occur together, suggesting that youth involvement with one risk behavior may inform understanding of other risk behaviors, but in a study to examine the association between involvement ...


New study identifies risk factors of disordered eating in overweight youth

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Post-traumatic stress disorder primary suicide risk factor for veterans

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

August 25, 2009—Researchers working with Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have found that post-traumatic stress disorder, the current most common mental disorder among veterans returning from service in the Middle East, ...


Teens who believe they'll die young are more likely to engage in risky behavior

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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 ...


New study shows linkage between teen girls' weight and sexual behavior

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A University of Pittsburgh study sheds new light on the relationship between race, body weight and sexual behavior among adolescent girls. The results suggest that a girl's ethnicity and her actual weight or perception of ...


Substance abuse diagnostic test for teens can also predict high risk sexual behavior

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alcohol and drug use are known contributors to adolescents engaging in dangerous sexual activity; leading to substantial health risks such as unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted illnesses, drug overdoses and alcohol ...


Partner behavior better predicts STD risks

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Apr 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Risky behaviors such as not using condoms or having sex with multiple people put young adults at risk for contracting sexually transmitted diseases, but perhaps not as much as the characteristics of their sexual partners, ...


Lifestyle interventions in the prevention and treatment of cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

There is clear evidence that lifestyle choices affect the incidence and treatment of cancer, according to a study published in the current issue of American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (AJLM).


Surprising results in teen study: adolescent risky behavior may signal mature brain

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A new study using brain imaging to study teen behavior indicates that adolescents who engage in dangerous activities have frontal white matter tracts that are more adult in form than their more conservative peers.


Genetic marker linked to problem behaviors in adults with developmental disabilities

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A common variation of the gene involved in regulating serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain may be linked to problem behaviors in adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities, new research indicates.


Don't mistake an athlete for a 'toxic jock'

Don't mistake an athlete for a 'toxic jock'

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A rose by any other name is still a rose, but is an athlete by another name... a jock?


College students who feel 'invincible' unlikely to accept vaccines, MU researcher finds

College students who feel 'invincible' unlikely to accept vaccines

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Vaccines to protect against sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and herpes, are being developed and may soon be available to college students. However, limited research has been conducted to determine ...


Stereotypes can fuel teen misbehavior

Stereotypes can fuel teen misbehavior

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Drinking. Drugs. Caving into peer pressure. When parents expect their teenagers to conform to negative stereotypes, those teens are in fact more likely to do so, according to new research by Christy Buchanan, ...


Prevalence of Disordered Eating Behaviors in Diabetics Probed

Prevalence of Disordered Eating Behaviors in Diabetics Probed

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Children with diabetes are at an increased risk for developing eating disorders and researchers want to know if it's their disease or treatment that's to blame.


Health choices predict cancer survival

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Head and neck cancer patients who smoked, drank, didn't exercise or didn't eat enough fruit when they were diagnosed had worse survival outcomes than those with better health habits, according to a new study from the University ...