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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

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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 ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

A spoonful of sugar or a bitter blocker?

Dr Hannah Newton, an historian of science with an interest in how previous generations coped with childhood illness, digs up some 17th century tips for making medicine taste better and finds evidence for common ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In autism, gene findings may help explain biology, guide drug discovery

(Medical Xpress) -- Autism and related disorders that profoundly affect behavior and development are diagnosed more often today than ever before.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physical punishment of children potentially harmful to their long-term development

An analysis of research on physical punishment of children over the past 20 years indicates that such punishment is potentially harmful to their long-term development, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Associati ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Positive parenting during early childhood may prevent obesity

Programs that support parents during their child's early years hold promise for obesity prevention, according to a new study in the online February 6 issue of Pediatrics.

Medicine & Health / Health

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Sex-specific behaviors traced to hormone-controlled genes in the brain

Hormones shape our bodies, make us fertile, excite our most basic urges, and as scientists have known for years, they govern the behaviors that separate men from women. But how?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

France convicts Google Maps for unfair competition

A French commercial court has found Google guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application and ordered it to pay a fine and damages to a French mapping company.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists help define structure of exoplanets

Using models similar to those used in weapons research, scientists may soon know more about exoplanets, those objects beyond the realm of our solar system.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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

Impoverished schools, parent education key factors in student weight

Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study urges parents to enforce booster seat use when carpooling

Most parents report that they typically require their child to use a life-saving booster seat, but more than 30 percent said they do not enforce this rule when their child is riding with another driver.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Peer passengers are bad news for teen drivers

Research shows that teens who drive with peers as passengers have increased risks of crashing. Many states have responded by creating graduated driver licensing laws which include limits on the number of passengers ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

College cuts odds for marriage among disadvantaged

(PhysOrg.com) -- For those with few social advantages, college is a prime pathway to financial stability, but it also unexpectedly lowers their odds of ever marrying, according to an analysis by Cornell sociologist Kelly ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

Family focus may help obese kids to succeed in treatment

Parents should be involved in treatment programs for their obese children, according to a new scientific statement published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Teens have fewer behavioral issues when parents stay involved

When parents of middle school students participate in school-based, family interventions, it can reduce problem behavior, according to new research released online in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Parent

A parent is a mother or father; one who sires or gives birth to and/or nurtures and raises an offspring. The different roles of parents vary throughout the tree of life, and are especially complex in human culture.

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