http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Children who avoid situations they find scary are likely to have anxiety a Mayo Clinic study of more than 800 children ages 7 to 18 found. The study published this month in Behavior Therapy presents a new method of measuring avoidance behavior in young children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-children-scary-situations-likelier-anxiety.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:21:33 EST news282302437 Does good behavior lead to more good behavior? Or do we try to balance our good and bad deeds? The answer depends on our ethical mindset, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-do-gooder-neer-do-well-behavioral-science-patterns.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:11:44 EST news281884288 Chances are the only thing you remember about your first swig of alcohol is how bad the stuff tasted. What you didn't know is the person who gave you that first drink and when you had it says a lot about your predisposition to imbibe later in life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-friends-teenagers.html Pediatrics Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:40:27 EST news278599214 Two studies scheduled for presentation today at SLEEP 2012 are reporting sleep disparities among Americans based on racial and ethnic background. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-ethnicity-country.html Health Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:40:01 EST news258780108 One in three households in Baltimore misreports its smoke alarm coverage, with the vast majority of errors due to over-reporting coverage, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. Reasons for over-reporting included study participants incorrectly assuming all of their alarms were working because they weren't beeping, and not having alarms on every level of the home. While previous research has found varying validity for self-report of smoke alarm coverage, this study is unique for also examining the reasons why individuals misreport. The report is available online in advance of publication in the journal Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-households-misreports-alarm-coverage.html Health Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:58:01 EST news254573853