http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Young adults with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely to never see friends, never get called by friends, never be invited to activities and be socially isolated. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-social-isolation-young-adults-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Thu, 02 May 2013 06:34:55 EST news286695287 A team of international researchers led by Northwestern Medicine scientists has identified how a defective protein plays a central role in a rare, lethal childhood disease known as Giant Axonal Neuropathy, or GAN. The finding is reported in the May 2013 Journal of Clinical Investigation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-rare-lethal-childhood-disease-tracked.html Medical research Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:43:57 EST news286479831 (HealthDay)—Lower levels of abdominal muscle strength and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in youth are independently associated with adverse levels of fasting insulin, insulin sensitivity, and β-cell function in young adulthood, according to a study published online April 11 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-teens-strength-cardio-insulin-resistance.html Diabetes Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:40:04 EST news286121422 (HealthDay)—The likelihood of diabetes in young adulthood is increased for those who are obese as adolescents and those with persistent obesity, compared to those with adult-onset obesity, according to a study published in the April issue of Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-duration-obesity-impact-adult-diabetes.html Diabetes Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:30:01 EST news284368013 Being overweight starting in young adulthood may significantly increase individuals' risks of developing kidney disease by the time they become seniors, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The findings emphasize the importance of excess weight as a risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-overweight-early-adulthood-linked-kidney.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:49:05 EST news284316537 Teenagers' struggles to connect with their peers in the early adolescent years while not getting swept along by negative peer influences predict their capacity to form strong friendships and avoid serious problems even ten years later. Those are the conclusions of a new longitudinal study by researchers at the University of Virginia that appears in the journal Child Development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-teens-struggles-peers-long-term-adult.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:01 EST news283629866 Has your paternal or maternal grandfather broken their hip on any occasion? In that case there is a greater risk that your own bones are more fragile as an adult. This has been demonstrated in a thesis at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden based on a study of over 1,000 young adults in Gothenburg, which identified those factors increasing the risk of bone fragility in men. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-grandad-hip-fracture-factor-osteoporosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:00:16 EST news282225607 (HealthDay)—Young adults exposed to mercury have a higher risk of developing diabetes later in life, according to a study published online Feb. 19 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-prospective-human-link-mercury-exposure.html Diabetes Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:50:01 EST news281727278 Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) affects more than 90 percent of the population worldwide and was the first human virus found to be associated with cancer. Now, researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have broadened the understanding of this widespread infection with their discovery of a second B-cell attachment receptor for EBV. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-reveals-clues-epstein-barr-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:50:34 EST news280673425 The more sex partners young adults have the more likely they are to go on to develop alcohol or cannabis dependence disorders in young adulthood, according to new University of Otago research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-multiple-sex-partners-linked-drug.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:51:11 EST news280144018 (HealthDay)—Current recommendations for the assessment and management of female reproductive complications following treatment of cancers in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood have been updated, according to a review published online Feb. 4 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-guidelines-young-ca-survivors-fertility.html Cancer Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:09:54 EST news279292182 Having adequate levels of vitamin D during young adulthood may reduce the risk of adult-onset type 1 diabetes by as much as 50%, according to researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The findings, if confirmed in future studies, could lead to a role for vitamin D supplementation in preventing this serious autoimmune disease in adults. The study was published online February 3, 2013 and will appear in the March 1 print edition of the American Journal of Epidemiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-vitamin-d-diabetes.html Diabetes Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:41:51 EST news279218486 Researchers use skin cells from patients with an inherited heart condition to recreate the adult-onset disease in a laboratory dish—producing the first maturation-based disease model for testing new therapies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-patients-skin-cells-heart-disease.html Medical research Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:00:06 EST news278503409 Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence—a critical time for brain development—and genetic changes that, in young adulthood, cause severe mental illness in those predisposed to it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-mouse-links-adolescent-stress-severe.html Neuroscience Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:00:09 EST news277653353 (HealthDay)—Teenagers who experience dating violence could be more likely to get involved in violent relationships and have health problems as young adults, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-dating-violence-teen-years-impact.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:29:25 EST news274357755 An increasing number of women entering young adulthood engage in heavy drinking behavior, placing them at risk of developing alcohol use disorders (AUDs) as well as other negative consequences such as sexual assault and physical injuries. Prior research has shown that college students drink more than their non-college peers. A new study of the influence of impulsivity-related traits and drinking motives on symptoms of alcohol dependence (AD) among college women has found that an impulsivity trait called 'negative urgency' predicted increases in AD symptoms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-college-women-impulsively-distressed-alcohol.html Addiction Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:00:02 EST news271604595 As youth infected at birth with HIV reach adolescence and young adulthood, a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases underscores the need to promote healthy behaviors as some of these young people become sexually active. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-interventions-healthy-behaviors-perinatally-hiv-infected.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:49:59 EST news271565387 It's a common lament among parents: Kids are growing up too fast these days. Parents worry about their kids getting involved in all kinds of risky behavior, but they worry especially about their kids' forays into sexual relationships. And research suggests that there may be cause for concern, as timing of sexual development can have significant immediate consequences for adolescents' physical and mental health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-true-age-sexual-romantic-outcomes.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:07:56 EST news269697766 Scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in a team led by Carol Everson, Ph.D., professor of neurology, cell biology, neurobiology and anatomy, have discovered abnormalities in bone and bone marrow in rats undergoing chronic lack of sleep. They discovered abnormalities in serum markers of bone metabolism in sleep-deprived rats, which led them to conduct direct measurements of bone parameters; this time in rats experiencing recurrent sleep restriction during a large portion of their young adulthood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-lack-affects-bone-health-marrow.html Medical research Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:38:13 EST news267187087 Depression in young adulthood can have long-lasting effects, potentially leading to a higher risk of death even decades later, suggests a new study in the Annals of Epidemiology. These findings highlight the importance of identifying and treating depression early. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-depression-young-adults-linked-higher.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:16:00 EST news264240947 Some young people's expectations that they will not live long, healthy lives may actually foreshadow such outcomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-teen-survival-risk-taking-behavior.html Health Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:00:02 EST news263057285 Neuroscientists from Wayne State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are taking a deeper look into how the brain mechanisms for memory retrieval differ between adults and children. While the memory systems are the same in many ways, the researchers have learned that crucial functions with relevance to learning and education differ. The team's findings were published on July 17, 2012, in the Journal of Neuroscience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-team-memory-children-adults.html Neuroscience Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:43:23 EST news262352594 (HealthDay) -- Young adults with hyperinsulinemia are significantly more likely to have hypertension (HTN) later in life, regardless of sex, ethnicity, or body weight, according to a study published in the July issue of Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-hyperinsulinemia-early-adulthood-tied-htn.html Diabetes Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:10:02 EST news260125608 Long-term use and abuse of opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, has markedly increased in the United States in the last two decades. Of note, prescription opioids constitute 86.9 percent of prescription drug misuse among high school students. And last week in a two-day U.S. Food and Drug Administration public meeting, officials questioned the use of long-term opioids for chronic pain due to a lack of evidence for the effectiveness and concerns about the potential risk for addiction. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-adolescents-young-adults-mental-health.html Medications Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:30:22 EST news258222616 Over the last decade, Dr. Benjamin Van Voorhees has been trying to find the best way to teach coping strategies to adolescents who are at risk of suffering from severe depression. The idea is to help them keep depression at bay so that it doesn't become a debilitating part of their lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-vaccination-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:10:01 EST news257766986 For more than three decades, researchers have warned of the potential health risks associated with exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), especially among children whose parents smoke. Now a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Arizona reports that those health risks persist well beyond childhood, independent of whether or not those individuals end up becoming smokers later in life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-children-exposed-tobacco-long-term-respiratory.html Health Sun, 20 May 2012 13:31:48 EST news256739499 With no specific clinical preventive care guidelines targeting young adults, health care providers are missing key opportunities to improve the health of this population through preventive screening and intervention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-comprehensive-guidelines-young-adult.html Health Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:58:22 EST news250250294 (Medical Xpress) -- Maintaining a healthy lifestyle from young adulthood into your 40s is strongly associated with low cardiovascular disease risk in middle age, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-heart-healthy-choices-early.html Cardiology Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:06:01 EST news249890748 (Medical Xpress) -- A UT Dallas professor is studying the differences between the social impairments found in autism and schizophrenia to help develop better treatments for people with both disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-traits-autism-schizophrenia.html Autism spectrum disorders Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:40:36 EST news249554419 The first drug that treats the root cause of cystic fibrosis won approval Tuesday, offering a life-changing treatment for a handful of patients with the deadly illness and broader hope for thousands more patients with the inherited disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-drug-cystic-fibrosis-root.html Medications Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:20:21 EST news247234799