Peer influence more likely to encourage smoking, say sociologists
(Medical Xpress)—Adolescents tend to be more powerful in influencing their friends to start smoking than in helping them to quit, according to sociologists.
Jul 22, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Adolescents tend to be more powerful in influencing their friends to start smoking than in helping them to quit, according to sociologists.
Jul 22, 2014
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New research shows that people who have bariatric surgery to treat obesity report an overall improvement in quality of life issues after surgery, from their relationships to their medical conditions. Arizona State University ...
Aug 18, 2012
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An Indiana University of Pennsylvania sociologist's study of mixed martial arts competitors found that these men have unique ways of managing fear that actually allow them to exhibit confidence.
Dec 13, 2011
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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.
Mar 6, 2012
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Levels of health disparity have increased substantially for people born in the United States after 1980, according to new research.
Dec 1, 2011
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While the percentage of obese children in the United States tripled between the early 1970s and the late 2000s, a new study suggests thatat least for middle school studentsweight gain has nothing to do with the ...
Jan 17, 2012
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Disadvantaged, unhealthy mothers are much more likely to have sickly children than are disadvantaged moms who are relatively healthyand this is not only due to genetics, suggests new research to be presented at the ...
Aug 21, 2011
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Women playing full-contact tackle football face challenges beyond the playing fieldyet there's little research about this niche in athletics. Jennifer Carter, a University of Cincinnati doctoral student in the UC Department ...
Aug 18, 2012
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A new study shows that grandparents and grandchildren have real, measurable effects on each other's psychological well-being long into grandchildren's adulthood.
Aug 12, 2013
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A new study led by a Northern Illinois University sociologist shows that while family members often provide critical support, they also can sometimes be the source of stigmatizing attitudes that impede the recovery of mentally ...
Jun 7, 2011
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