News tagged with young adults

With optimal conversations, young couples experience less relationship stress, higher satisfaction: study

(Medical Xpress) -- The happiest young couples may be involved in a different kind of engagement. Young adults who easily engage in rewarding conversations with their partners are less likely to hold onto anger and stress ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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

Study to determine whether fish oil can help prevent psychiatric disorders

Researchers at Zucker Hillside Hospital's Recognition and Prevention (RAP) Program who have worked with teenagers at risk for serious mental illness for the past decade are now studying the effectiveness of Omega 3 fatty ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Coughing and other respiratory symptoms improve within weeks of smoking cessation

If the proven long-term benefits of smoking cessation are not enough to motivate young adults to stop smoking, a new study shows that 18- to 24-year olds who stop smoking for at least two weeks report substantially ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google+ opens up to teenagers

Google on Thursday opened up Google+ to teenagers, just days after loosening the rules about using real names on the social network.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers find negative social interactions can lead to increased amounts of internal inflammation

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of California have found that negative social interactions can cause internal inflammation that may over time lead to possible health consequences. In the study, the results ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Generation X: How young adults deal with influenza

Only about one in five young adults in their late 30s received a flu shot during the 2009-2010 swine flu epidemic, according to a University of Michigan report that details the behavior and attitudes of Generation X.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Benefits of high quality child care persist 30 years later: research

Adults who participated in a high quality early childhood education program in the 1970s are still benefiting from their early experiences in a variety of ways, according to a new study.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Over-65s are frequent binge drinkers: US study

Binge drinking is more common in the United States than previously thought, particularly among young adults, though the most frequent offenders are over 65, said a US government study on Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Cancer and fertility -- young women speak up

Young female cancer survivors are concerned about their future fertility and parenthood options and want better information and guidance early on, according to a new study by Jessica Gorman and her team from the University ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

To children (but not adults) a rose by any other name is still a rose

New research challenges the conventional thinking that young children use language just as adults do to help classify and understand objects in the world around them.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Why bigger is better when it comes to our brain and memory

The hippocampus is an important brain structure for recollection memory, the type of memory we use for detailed reliving of past events. Now, new research published by Cell Press in the December 22 issue of the journal Neuron reveal ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Yahoo expands sharing of stories through Facebook

Yahoo is deepening its connections with Facebook's online social network.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Texting can help to both assess drinking issues and deliver brief interventions

Each day numerous young adults in the U.S. visit hospital emergency departments (EDs) for alcohol-related problems. This study examined the use of text messaging (TM), both to collect drinking data from young adults after ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

2.5M young adults gain coverage

(AP) -- The number of young adults lacking medical coverage has shrunk by 2.5 million since the new health care overhaul law took effect, according to a new analysis the Obama administration is to release ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Too much information? Birth control choices abound

(AP) -- Worried about birth control in light of headlines about side effects from Yaz and the patch? Women have a lot of options that are safe and effective, including some that are even more reliable.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0