Nearly 1 in 4 adolescents in the United States experienced obesity from 2017 to 2020, and youths of color experienced disproportionately higher obesity rates, at approximately 26 percent of Hispanic youth and 25 percent of ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Social media is so often plagued by disinformation that it's easy to overlook its positive effects. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, when vaccine denialism and dangerous fallacies flooded platforms, millions of people around ...
Jul 6, 2023
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A new study reveals the extent of homophobic name-calling among teenagers, and the damaging impact it has on mental health, regardless of whether the name-calling is from rivals, strangers or friends.
Jul 6, 2023
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For Ana Marcela RodrÃguez, an immigrant from Mexico, finding a bilingual therapist in North Texas who understood her culture felt like a near-impossible task.
Jun 23, 2023
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A study that introduces a new strategy to promote customized, oral health self-care by using an online platform to connect dental professionals and patients will be presented at the 101st General Session of the IADR, which ...
Jun 22, 2023
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Excessive drinking and alcohol-related deaths are increasing at an alarming rate among women, particularly among reproductive-aged women in their late 20s and 30s. Traditionally, women tend to reduce their alcohol consumption ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Precision medicine seeks to adapt treatments to the characteristics of each patient. Genome studies are providing more and more data to achieve this, but this very abundance of information is hampering the task: Doctors must ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Social media plays an important role in the lives of many tweens and teens. More than one-third (35%) of 13- to 17-year-olds reported using social media sites such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook "almost ...
Jun 19, 2023
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Undergraduates at UK universities experienced prolonged and high levels of psychological distress and anxiety during the pandemic, according to a new study, tracking well-being over the course of 2020 to 2021.
Jun 19, 2023
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The literature is clear: There is a dark side to engaging with social media, with linkages to depressive symptoms, a sense of social isolation, and dampened self-esteem recently revealed in the global discourse as alarming ...
Jun 15, 2023
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