(HealthDay News) — When a friend lets them down, girls may take it harder than boys do, a new study suggests. It included 267 fourth- and fifth-grade students in North Carolina and Rhode Island who were shown 16 hypothetical stories in which a friend had violated a core expectation of friendship, such as belittling their [...]
HealthDay News — The brains of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ADHD show abnormalities in certain areas involved with "visual attention," new research finds.Researchers performed functional MRIs fMRIs on 19 children aged 9 to 15 diagnosed with ADHD and 19 without the disorder while the children took a test in which they were shown a set [...]
HealthDay News — As the popularity of non-alcoholic "energy" drinks skyrockets, so do related health problems, a new study finds.In 2009, U.S. emergency rooms treated almost 10 times more cases of reactions to beverages such as Monster and Rockstar than they did in 2005, according to a new U.S. government report released Tuesday.More than 13,000 [...]
(HealthDay News) — Skilled readers do not have to sound out words every time they see them, a new study indicates. Instead, once they know a word, they can access a "visual dictionary" in their brains to recognize it every time they see it, said researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. They suggested these findings [...]
Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost synonymous with being online. Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites.1 Many log on daily to [...]
(HealthDay News) — From decorative contact lenses to face paint, experts warn that Halloween costumes may result in a wide array of potentially serious health issues from falls to allergic reactions. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission provided [...]
(HealthDay News) — Teens who don’t get enough sleep may find themselves putting on extra pounds and boys, in particular, may be at risk for obesity, new research suggests. In the study, researchers surveyed 108 male and 147 female students at a Texas high school and found that the average sleep time on weekdays was [...]
(HealthDay News) — Having a good relationship with their teacher may help reduce aggressive behavior among first-graders and also protect them from other students’ aggression, researchers have found. Genetic factors can influence aggression in middle childhood, but outside influences also play a role, according to the study published in the September/October issue of the journal [...]
HealthDay News — Children with specific gene variants respond better to the drug methylphenidate Ritalin, Concerta, which is widely used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD, a new study says.The finding could help improve treatment of ADHD, according to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center researchers."Physicians don’t have a good way of predicting who will [...]
The Drug Enforcement Administration took emergency action on Friday to ban three synthetic stimulants used to make products that are marketed at head shops and on the Web as “bath salts,” but are actually used as recreational drugs that mimic the effects of cocaine, LSD and methamphetamine. The emergency measure places these substances — mephedrone, [...]
