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Physically abused children report higher levels of psychosomatic symptoms

Children who display multiple psychosomatic symptoms, such as regular aches and pains and sleep and appetite problems, are more than twice as likely to be experiencing physical abuse at home than children who do not display ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Tackling financial exploitation of elderly people

Professionals who are in close contact with elderly people could soon be in a better position to spot if they are being financially exploited, for example through a lottery scam or by a deceitful relative draining the bank ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Parents blame child sex abuse victims more if perpetrator is another youth, research shows

Parents are much more likely to blame and doubt their children when their child has been sexually abused by another adolescent instead of an adult, according to new research from the Crimes against Children Research Center ...

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created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Children hospitalized at alarming rate due to abuse

In one year alone, over 4,500 children in the United States were hospitalized due to child abuse, and 300 of them died of their injuries, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study. The findings are published ...

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created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lecture or listen: When patients waver on meds

Take your medicine, Doctor's orders. It's a simple idea that may seem especially obvious when the pills are the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that add decades to the lives of HIV-positive patients. But despite the reality that ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survivors of violence benefit from mentoring

Can mentoring relationships help female students who survive childhood abuse or domestic violence? Absolutely, according to new research from Concordia University, published in the Journal of College Student Development.

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neurologists should ask patients about abuse

A new position statement issued by the American Academy of Neurology calls on neurologists to begin screening their patients for abusive or violent treatment by family, caretakers or others. The position statement is published ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Socioeconomic status more influential than race in determination of child abuse

An Indiana University School of Medicine study has determined that a patient's socioeconomic status has more influence than race on physician diagnosis of whether a child's injury was accidental or caused by abuse.

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created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Report: Mental illness struck 1 in 5 US adults in 2010

One in five adults in the U.S. had a mental illness in 2010, with people ages 18 to 25 having the highest rates, according to a national survey.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

US Army suicides down, sex assaults up

The Pentagon said Thursday the number of suicides in the US Army fell last year for the first time since 2004, but that sexual assaults increased.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Homeless heavy drinkers imbibe less when housing allows alcohol

A study of a controversial housing project that allows chronically homeless people with severe alcohol problems to drink in their apartments found that during their first two years in the building residents cut their heavy ...

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created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mental illness protects some inmates from returning to jail

People with mental illness have gotten a bad rap in past research studies, being labeled the group of people with the highest return rates to prison. But a researcher from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A family history of alcoholism may make adolescent brains respond differently

Researchers know that adolescents with a family history of alcoholism (FHP) are at risk for developing alcohol use disorders. Some studies have shown that, compared to their peers, FHP adolescents have deficits in behavioral ...

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created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Review questions link between methamphetamine and cognitive impairment

(Medical Xpress) -- A review of recent research on methamphetamine use suggests that claims the drug causes significant cognitive problems are exaggerated. The study by Carl Hart, PhD, and colleagues at Columbia ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Coping with abuse in the work place

Confronting an abusive boss is easier said than done: employees coping with the stress of abusive treatment prefer to avoid direct communication even though it would be the most effective tactic in terms of emotional well-being. ...

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created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0