Children’s behavior or conduct problems like skipping school, sneaking out of the house, lying to parents, shoplifting, or bullying other children, are a major source of concern for parents and teachers.
Children who sleep less are at greater risk of being overweight, according to the first nationally representative, longitudinal investigation of the relationship between sleep, Body Mass Index and overweight status in children 3 to 18. “Even an hour of sleep makes a big difference,” said Northwestern University researcher Emily Snell. “An additional hour a night reduced young children?s chance of being overweight from 36 percent to 30 percent.”
A new study shows that many of the beneficial results of exercise may be due to the placebo effect.
Video games that contain high levels of action, such as Unreal Tournament, can actually improve your vision.
College women may be playing drinking games (i.e. Kings, Beer Pong, Quarters) at rates similar to college men, according to a study led by researchers at Loyola Marymount University.
Wielding a palette of chromosome paints, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have taken a step closer to understanding the relationship between aging and cancer by visualizing chromosomes of cells from patients with a heritable premature aging disease known as Werner Syndrome.
Teenagers who spend a lot of time planted in front of the TV are more likely to have higher blood pressure, regardless of whether they are overweight.
New Jersey doctor Ahmed Rashed pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of third-degree theft for stealing a severed cadaver hand, which he gave to a stripper who displayed it in her New Jersey apartment.
A little-known lipid plays a big role in helping us grow from a hollow sphere of stem cells into human beings, researchers have found.
Women living in areas with higher levels of air pollution have a greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease and subsequently dying from cardiovascular causes.