Maternal smoking during pregnancy predicts persistent criminality and acts of violent crimes rather than delinquency limited to adolescence, according to an article published in the AMA’s Archives of General Psychiatry. Researchers…
Boys tend to overestimate their school performance compared to how their teachers rate them, but girls tend to underestimate their own performance, new research shows. The gap emerges around fourth grade…
The combination of high job stress and large family responsibilities spells significant and persistent increases in blood pressure for white-collar women who hold a university degree, a Canadian study shows.…
Social support from women appears to be more effective than support from men in reducing both men’s and women’s blood pressure under stress. But, scientists who ran the laboratory experiments that…
Researchers calculated that employed husbands and wives should each do less than half of the household chores (45.8 percent each to be precise) if they want to keep their personal distress…
Amidst the recent flurry of health, nutrition and fitness advice, a Gallup survey shows that consumers are more aware of some basic nutrition principles but still a bit uncertain about how…
The concerns that loom largest in the minds of breast cancer patients during the first year after surgery are not loss of attractiveness or sexuality, as is often thought. Instead, it’s…
The amount of physical and emotional suffering connected with premenstrual stress syndrome (PMS) may depend on what women think they should experience, a team of Mexican scientists says. Dr. Maria Luisa…
Many primary care physicians are confident in their ability to diagnose depression and endorse this important role as part of their clinical responsibilities, according to a national survey of family physicians,…
The typical American diet has introduced high amounts of fat, oils, sugar and processed foods that have led to a weight problem that affects most countries. Fitness weight loss is an…
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