Health
Does your kid need a summer vacation from smartphones?
Summer vacation has begun for some families and screen use may already feel like too much.
Jun 1, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Crisis intervention program leverages social media to reduce suicide risk
An Oregon-based program that monitors social media use may have helped deter more than 150 youth suicide attempts in the five years it's operated, reports a new study published online in the journal Psychiatric Services.
Jun 1, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Using Twitter to track the flu: Researchers find a better way to screen the tweets
Sifting through social media messages has become a popular way to track when and where flu cases occur, but a key hurdle hampers the process: how to identify flu-infection tweets. Some tweets are posted by people who have ...
Jan 25, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Parenting in a post-pandemic world
If you're a parent or child caretaker, the news can feel especially daunting in these post-pandemic times. Math and reading proficiency levels among fourth- and eighth-graders across the U.S. dropped precipitously between ...
Nov 16, 2022
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Health
Young parents don't stress over kids' media use: survey
(HealthDay)—Having grown up with gadgets galore, young parents aren't as worried about the potentially corrosive effects of too much screen time on their offspring, a new study suggests.
Jun 4, 2013
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Neuroscience
Pandemic screen time tops 6 hours a day for some kindergartners
Kindergartners from low-income families spent more than six hours a day in front of screens during two early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a small Ohio study suggests.
May 12, 2021
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Autism spectrum disorders
Screen time may not be tied to autism spectrum disorder
Screen time for children may not be associated with development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a study published online Dec. 8 in JAMA Network Open.
Dec 18, 2023
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Health
Media coverage of health, especially disease screening, is often not sufficiently nuanced
The media covers health extensively, at no time more than during the pandemic. But that coverage often is not sufficiently nuanced.
Jul 27, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Warning screens fail to deter Instagram users from seeing graphic content, study finds
The introduction of sensitive-content warning screens by Instagram is not effectively protecting vulnerable Internet users from the negative impact of graphic online imagery, according to new research from Flinders University.
Feb 2, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer screening in LGBTQIA+ individuals
Prajakta Adsul, MBBS, Ph.D., MPH, saw the void in 2018 when she worked at the National Cancer Institute and helped the United States Preventive Services Task Force develop guidelines for cervical cancer screening.
Jun 22, 2023
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