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Students' diet and physical activity improve with parent communications

College students eat more fruits and vegetables and exercise more on days when they communicate more with their parents, according to researchers at Penn State.

Health created May 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nearly half of high schoolers text while driving: survey

(HealthDay)—Close to half of U.S high school students text while driving, a habit that dramatically increases their risk of getting into a potentially fatal car crash, a new study shows.

Pediatrics created May 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers apply lessons of animal herd behavior to reduce alcohol-related traffic deaths

Maurizio Porfiri, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), is best known for his work on biologically inspired robots that mimic the movement of schooling ...

Other created May 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0