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Don't Txt N Drive: Teens Not Getting Msg: 43 Percent of Youths Admit to Texting While Driving
May 4, 2013 Teens can get hundreds of text messages a day, but one message they aren't getting is that they shouldn't text and drive. Nearly 43 percent of high school students of driving age who were surveyed in ... > full story -
Experts to Focus on the Science of Gun Safety
May 4, 2013 Pediatric leaders and researchers tackled the complex and often politically charged subject of gun ... > full story -
Teens With High Blood Pressure Have Less Distress, Better Quality of Life Than Teens With Normal Blood Pressure, Study Suggests
May 3, 2013 Teenagers with high blood pressure appear to have better psychological adjustment and enjoy higher quality of life than those with normal blood pressure, suggests a new ... > full story -
Violent Video Games Have Lower Effects on Highly-Exposed Teens
May 3, 2013 Teenagers who are highly exposed to violent video games —- three or more hours per day -— show blunted physical and psychological responses to playing a violent game, reports a new ... > full story -
Kids With Conduct Problems May Have Brains That Under-React to Painful Images: May Increase Risk of Adult Psychopathy
May 2, 2013 When children with conduct problems see images of others in pain, key parts of their brains don't react in the way they do in most people. This pattern of reduced brain activity upon witnessing pain ... > full story -
Focus on STD, Not Cancer Prevention, to Promote HPV Vaccine Use
May 2, 2013 The HPV vaccine can prevent both cervical cancer and a nasty sexually transmitted disease in women. But emphasizing the STD prevention will persuade more young women to get the ... > full story -
Exercise Proves to Be Ineffective Against Care Home Depression
May 2, 2013 Researchers have shown that exercise is not effective in reducing burden of depression among elderly care home ... > full story -
Bigger Birth Weight Babies at Greater Risk of Autism
May 2, 2013 The biggest study of fetal growth and autism to date has reported that babies whose growth is at either extreme in the womb, either very big or very small, are at greater risk of developing ... > full story -
Social Isolation of Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder Examined
May 1, 2013 Young adults with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely to be socially isolated. That’s the finding of new research that studies the social outcomes of young adults with an ... > full story -
PTSD Research: Distinct Gene Activity Patterns from Childhood Abuse
May 1, 2013 A study of adult civilians with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) has shown that individuals with a history of childhood abuse have distinct, profound changes in gene activity patterns, compared ... > full story
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