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(HealthDay)—Eugene King ran away from home at the age of 16, the start of a lifelong pattern of drug abuse, crime and incarceration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-mental-illness-frequent-cell-bars.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:50:01 EST news284380431 Marriage may not always be as beneficial to health as experts have led us to believe, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-health-benefits-marriage.html Health Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:38:11 EST news281698680 Same-sex couples that live together report worse health than people of the same socioeconomic status who are in heterosexual marriages, according to a national study that could have implications for the gay marriage debate. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-health-same-sex-couples.html Health Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:00:01 EST news281124554 Psychiatric disorders are prevalent among current and former inmates of correctional institutions, but what has been less clear is whether incarceration causes these disorders or, alternatively, whether inmates have these problems before they enter prison. A study co-authored by Jason Schnittker, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, shows that many of the most common psychiatric disorders found among former inmates, including impulse control disorders, emerge in childhood and adolescence and, therefore, predate incarceration. Yet, incarceration seems to lead to some mood related psychiatric disorders, such as major depression, which have important implications for what happens to inmates after their release. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-link-incarceration-psychiatric-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:54:41 EST news277552475 Behavior problems, not depression, are linked to lower grades for depressed adolescents, according to a study in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-behavior-problems-depression-linked-grades.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:01 EST news273344763 (Medical Xpress)—About 115,000 women lose their private health insurance every year in the wake of divorce, according to a University of Michigan study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-divorce-thousands-women-health-coverage.html Health Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:13:13 EST news271959177 Higher neighborhood education is associated with better self-rated health among Asian Americans who live in Asian ethnic neighborhoods, but this correlation between individual health and neighborhood education levels does not exist for Asian Americans living in non-Asian neighborhoods, according to a recent study in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-asian-american-neighborhoods-affect-residents.html Health Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:15:21 EST news271602906 Doctors who believe that women have "atypical" coronary heart disease symptoms are less certain when diagnosing heart disease in women.  As a result, women are less likely than men to receive treatments for an urgent cardiac event, finds a new study in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-diagnostic-confidence-key-prompt-treatment.html Cardiology Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:30:03 EST news265447116 Socioeconomic status is a big predictor of how likely people are to have living wills, a power of attorney for health care decisions or to participate in informal discussions about treatment preferences with loved ones. People with few assets were half as likely as those of more means to plan for these end-of-life concerns, a new study in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-people-assets-end-of-life-health.html Health Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:50:01 EST news264410310 Rather than gaining "liquid courage" to let loose with friends, teenage drinkers are more likely to feel like social outcasts, according to a new sociological study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-alcohol-abuse-effect-social-isolation.html Health Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:17:34 EST news258714938 An Indiana University study found that teens and young adults who are members of multiple minority or disadvantaged groups face more discrimination than their more privileged peers and, as a result, report worse mental and physical health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-young-people-multiple-disadvantaged-groups.html Health Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:45:34 EST news258626726 Does the growing number of psychiatric disorder diagnoses have an effect on people with mental illnesses? According to a new study, as definitions of mental illnesses become broader, people who show signs of depression and other common mental illnesses are less likely to evoke a supportive response from friends and family members as are people with other severe mental disorders. This new study was released in a recent issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-psychiatrists-desensitizing.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:06:10 EST news253206362 Obese white teenage girls who lose weight may benefit physically, but the weight change does not guarantee they are going to feel better about themselves, according to a Purdue University study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-weight-loss-wont-necessarily-teen.html Health Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:43:23 EST news251631729 Bilingual immigrants are healthier than immigrants who speak only one language, according to new research from sociologists at Rice University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-bilingual-immigrants-healthier.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:06:13 EST news251028300 Married adults who undergo heart surgery are more than three times as likely as single people who have the same surgery to survive the next three months, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-marriage-powerful-heart-drug-short.html Health Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:50:37 EST news250253422