Following the Christmas day bomb attempt on a US aircraft, the British and American governments have vowed to tighten airport security, including plans for CT body scanners. This has raised concerns – not least that the images generated by the sca…
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The pregnancy rate among teenage girls has jumped for the first time in more than a decade, raising alarm that the long campaign to reduce motherhood among adolescents is faltering.
A study published in the journal Contraception details “reproductive coercion,” when the male partner pressures the other, through verbal threats, physical aggression, or birth-control sabotage, to become pregnant. Reproductive coercion among adolescen…
New research shows bullying victims can suffer lingering health issues, from stomach pains to more colds, even after they become adults.
In the 1900s, life expectancy was under 50 years old. Today, the average life expectancy is more than 75 years for men and more than 80 years for women. By 2030, 1 in every 5 Americans will be 65 years or older – what we often call "…
Female elementary school teachers who are concerned about their own math skills could be passing that along to the little girls they teach, says a new study of first- and second-graders.
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Children who are ambidextrous, using either hand with the same ease, may be more likely to have mental health, language and academic problems than their peers, according to a new study.
As almost everyone knows, calorie-related obesity has reached
“Don’t forget to put on your hat!” It’s the refrain of many mothers, watching their kids and teenagers as they slip out the door in the blustery days of winter. Turns out they are right; wearing a hat in the cold is go…
Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.