Quitting smoking ‘reduces anxiety’
• Psychiatry / Psychology • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 02 13
Smokers who successfully quit feel less anxious afterwards - despite the belief that smoking relieves stress, researchers say.
The British Journal of Psychiatry study…
Still hungry? It could be that fructose in your drink
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Jan 02 13
This is your brain on sugar - for real. Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar…
More evidence for “obesity paradox”
• Obesity • Jan 02 13
In a review of almost 100 past studies covering nearly three million people, researchers found that being overweight or slightly obese was linked to…
Second impact syndrome: A devastating injury to the young brain
• Brain • • Neurology • Jan 02 13
Physicians at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Northwest Radiology Network (Indianapolis, Indiana) report the case of a 17-year-old high school football player…
Higher levels of obesity associated with increased risk of death
• Mortality and Morbidity • • Obesity • Jan 02 13
In an analysis of nearly 100 studies that included approximately 3 million adults, relative to normal weight, overall obesity (combining all grades) and higher…
Pediatricians say kids need recess during school
• Children's Health • Jan 01 13
A group of American pediatricians is telling school districts that children need recess and free time during the school day, and it should not…
Every school needs a doctor, pediatricians say
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jan 01 13
Despite no federal or uniform state requirements to do so, all school districts should have a doctor to oversee school health services, according to…