CDC: One in eight U.S. women binge drink
Although more men binge drink than women, health risk is greater among women due to physiologic differences and risk for unintended pregnancy.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Making sense of mass shootings
Efforts to end gun violence in Newtown’s wake must address ‘culture of violence.’
Help kids who are bullied or bullies
Bullying can begin as early as kindergarten, and it can affect all children regardless of race, gender and socioeconomic status.
Information-based society contributes to obesity
Greater investment in information technology correlates with increases in obesity.
Pets help kids with autism improve social skills
Getting a pet may help people with autism improve their social skills, particularly with offering to share and offering comfort, study results suggest.
Sources of comfort for those with dementia
A clinician shares gender-specific advice for comforting patients with dementia in moments of confusion.
Show—don’t tell—when it comes to weight loss
Conversations about weight loss can contribute tremendously to behavioral changes, but tangible examples may be even more effective.
Motivate healthy choices with the Transtheoretical Model
Getting patients to make behavior changes that stick can be tough. Treating the change as a process can help.
Teen substance use peaks during summer months
More teens initiate alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use in June and July than in any other months.
Eating disorder symptoms evident in older women
As many as 71.2% of women aged 50 years and older who participated in an online survey reported that they were trying to lose weight and 13% reported at least one eating disorder symptom.
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