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Mental health of teens with disability significantly harmed by peer bullying

11.08.2018 Health Problems

Compared to those without a disability, adolescents with a disability have much poorer health and wellbeing, new research has found. They also experience bullying at a higher level than their peers. A University of Melbourne-led Australian study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, has found that almost 50 per cent of the poorer mental health of adolescents with disability […]

Kristen Bell Talks Kids, Tech & the Armpit Phones of the Future

09.08.2018 Kids Health

We’ve lost count of all the reasons we love Kristen Bell, but the fact that she’s basically #ParentingGoals definitely ranks high on the list. And now she’s given us some awesome advice on an issue many parents can relate to: explaining to kids why it’s so important to use technology in moderation. In an exclusive interview with SheKnows, Bell told […]

Avoiding the lifelong psychological damage of childhood bullying

08.08.2018 Health Problems

Childhood bullying is so common that it may not seem like a big deal. Up to 35% per cent of people are estimated to have experienced it at some point. By adulthood, we are generally expected to have “got over” it. But the mental health effects of being bullied can be serious and last a lifetime. One study has even […]

Study of 21 retired NFL and NHL players doesn’t find evidence of early onset dementia

07.08.2018 Health Problems

New University at Buffalo research is adding important information to the body of knowledge about the cognitive and behavioral status of a group of retired professional athletes who spent their careers in contact sports. The study findings, from UB’s Healthy Aging Mind Project, were published today online before print in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. The study assessed 21 […]

One-quarter of older U.S. adults may be overtreated for diabetes

04.08.2018 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—One-quarter of older adults with type 2 diabetes in the United States are tightly controlled using glucose-lowering medications with a high risk of hypoglycemia, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Suzanne V. Arnold, M.D., from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and colleagues examined the proportion of older adults with […]

The neurobiological basis of leadership

04.08.2018 Health Problems

Leaders are more willing to take responsibility for making decisions that affect the welfare of others. In a new study, researchers at the University of Zurich identified the cognitive and neurobiological processes that influence whether someone is more likely to take on leadership or to delegate decision-making. Parents, company bosses and army generals as well as teachers and heads of […]

Can we predict the long-term outcome of boys with ADHD?

02.08.2018 Health Problems

A study published in the August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports on a group of boys diagnosed with ADHD in childhood (when they were, on average, 8 years old) and followed into adulthood (when they were in their early 40s). The goal was to examine whether boys’ characteristics in […]

Lack of a single molecule may indicate severe and treatment-resistant depression

30.07.2018 Health Problems

People with depression have low blood levels of a substance called acetyl-L-carnitine, according to a Stanford University School of Medicine scientist and her collaborators in a multicenter study. Naturally produced in the body, acetyl-L-carnitine is also widely available in drugstores, supermarkets and health food catalogs as a nutritional supplement. People with severe or treatment-resistant depression, or whose bouts of depression […]

No higher risk of autoimmune disorders after HPV4 vaccination

30.07.2018 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—Following quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV4) vaccination, girls age 12 to 17 years do not have increased risk of autoimmune disorders, according to a study published recently in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association. Erin Y. Liu, from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and colleagues conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study using Ontario’s administrative health and vaccination databases from […]

Inflammation inhibitor delivered directly to kidneys reverses course of destructive nephritis

30.07.2018 Health Problems

Using a manmade version of a human antibody to directly deliver a drug that inhibits a powerful driver of inflammation, can reverse a disease course that often leads to kidney failure and dialysis, investigators report. They have additionally found that it’s the powerhouses of kidney cells, called mitochondria, that are particularly impacted by the acute or chronic inflammation called nephritis, […]

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