http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. For young women in high school, the risk of childbearing may depend on the prevalence of obesity in their schools, according to sociologists, who found that as the prevalence of obesity rises in a school, so do the odds of obese high school students bearing children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-obese-students-childbearing-varies-high.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 09 May 2013 10:32:01 EST news287314311 An international study found that despite widespread acceptance that mental illness is a disease that can be effectively treated, a common "backbone" of prejudice exists that unfairly paints people with conditions such as depression and schizophrenia as undesirable for close personal relationships and positions of authority. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-backbone-mental-illness-stigma-common.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:52:57 EST news284896370 For years, neurologist William Young of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's Headache Center has heard his patients say how bad they felt when other people did not take their migraines seriously. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-probes-stigma-migraine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:55:22 EST news280407305 Much has been made about who or what is to blame for the "obesity epidemic" and what can or should be done to stem the tide of rising body mass among the U.S. population. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-obsession-obesity-dangerous-ucla-author.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:42:30 EST news275222538 Three University of Kentucky (UK) sociologists have co-authored a study that helps to fill a gap in our understanding of suicide risk among African-American women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-bridge-gap-suicide-african-american-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:52:14 EST news274618314 (Medical Xpress)—Children living in poorer neighborhoods are nearly 30 percent more likely to be obese than children in more affluent residences, according to a new study from Rice University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-link-poverty-childhood-obesity.html Health Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:26:23 EST news271934774 While the Western press often targets religious groups for their roles in handling the African AIDS crisis, these groups tend to play positive—and critical—roles in fighting the epidemic, according to sociologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-religions-positive-role-african-aids.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:51:12 EST news266586586 A Web-based interactive anthology will provide psychologists, economists, anthropologists, sociologists and other scientists with the latest research methods and tools to address emerging challenges in public health, such as the obesity epidemic and the rise of chronic diseases such as heart disease. The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health collaborated with New England Research Institutes to create the free resource (http://www.esourceresearch.org/), called e-Source. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-nih-online-resource-behavioral-social.html Health Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:21:55 EST news251731287 Mothers who financially struggle to provide food for their families tend to put themselves at risk for obesity while trying to feed their children, according to Penn State sociologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-low-income-mothers-obesity-children.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:06:35 EST news251039183 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 Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-impoverished-schools-parent-key-factors.html Health Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:45:25 EST news247322719 Racial discrimination may be harmful to your health, according to new research from Rice University sociologists Jenifer Bratter and Bridget Gorman. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-discrimination-health.html Health Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:20:01 EST news245591866 Many economists and sociologists have warned of the social dangers of a wide gap between the richest and everyone else. Now, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, adds a psychological reason to narrow the disparity – it makes people unhappy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-income-disparity-people-unhappy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:16:16 EST news227196960 Several years ago, Suparna Rajaram noticed a strange sort of contagion in a couple she was close to. One partner acquired dementia -- and the other lost the nourishing pleasures of joint reminiscence. "When the other person cannot validate shared memories," said Rajaram, "they are both robbed of the past." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-psychologists-badly.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:10:15 EST news223142979