News tagged with risky behaviors
Young adults visit doctors least at an age when risky behavior peaks
Sep 25, 2009 |
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When adolescents graduate to young adulthood, their preventive care tends to fall by the wayside. A recent study has found that young adults are much less likely to use ambulatory or preventive care, even though their mortality ...
Higher level of testosterone in women linked to choice of risky careers
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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The battle of the sexes rages on, this time from the trading floor. While there has long been debate about the social and biological differences between men and women, new research by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern ...
Risky business: Stressed men more likely to gamble
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Stressed out, dude? Don't go to Vegas.
Teens who believe they'll die young are more likely to engage in risky behavior
Jun 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
Prevention program helps teens override a gene linked to risky behavior
May 15, 2009 |
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A family-based prevention program designed to help adolescents avoid substance use and other risky behavior proved especially effective for a group of young teens with a genetic risk factor contributing toward such behavior, ...
Safe driving education should be part of routine teen physicals, experts say
Mar 24, 2009 |
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The "are you driving yet?" talk should become part of every pediatrician's regular physical exam for teenagers, Hopkins Children's experts say.
Majority of teens discuss risky behaviors on MySpace, studies conclude
Jan 06, 2009 |
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In a pair of related studies released by Seattle Children's Research Institute and published in the January 2009 issue of Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, researchers found that 54 percent of adolescents freque ...
