Pediatrics

Fewer American parents are spanking their kids

(HealthDay)—Spanking and hitting children to discipline them has been on the decline among U.S. parents—rich and poor alike—since 1988, a new study finds.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Ethicists' behavior not more moral, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—Do ethicists engage in better moral behavior than other professors? The answer is no. Nor are they more likely than nonethicists to act according to values they espouse, according to researchers from the ...

Health

Systematic screening of med adherence will ID barriers

(HealthDay)—Implementation of systematic monitoring for medication adherence will allow for identification of barriers to adherence and tailoring of interventions, according to a viewpoint piece published in the May 22/29 ...

Health

Why you resolved to get thinner and fitter this year

Did you make a New Year's resolution this year? If so, you are participating in a social as well as a personal ritual. The patterns of resolutions, considered collectively, reveal what many of us consider to be virtuous.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Parents get physical with unruly kids, study finds

Parents get physical with their misbehaving children in public much more than they show in laboratory experiments and acknowledge in surveys, according to one of the first real-world studies of caregiver discipline.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Early detection method hopes to prevent psychosis

Mental health researchers have made a promising breakthrough in the early detection of the risk of psychosis, with the eventual hope that patients could be given appropriate treatments earlier to prevent psychotic episodes ...

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