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Training physicians in mindfulness meditation and communication skills can enhance the quality of primary care for both practitioners and their patients, according to a new study.
A habit of binge eating may make an individual more likely to show other addiction-like behaviors, including substance abuse, according to a new study.
Eating disorders can be triggered by lack of support following traumatic events such as bereavement, relationship problems, abuse and sexual assault, according to research published in the May issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing.
A new technology could some day help paralyzed patients move their limbs.
Scientists have developed the first blood test to diagnose major depression in teens.
Voluntary testing and counseling (VT/C) for HIV or sexually transmitted infections (STI) reduces drug users' risk sexual bahaviors, a new study found.
Ottawa, Ontario (April 10, 2012) – Researchers have gained new insight into why 22% of Canadian women of childbearing age are still not achieving a folate concentration considered optimal for reducing the risk of having babies with neural tube defects, despite a virtual absence of folate deficiency in the general Canadian population.
Nearly 18 percent of U.S. school-aged children and adolescents are obese, as the rate of childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years.
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Alexander Tsai of Harvard University, Cambridge, USA and colleagues show that in sexually active women in Brazil severe food insecurity with hunger was positively associated with symptoms potentially indicative of sexually transmitted infection and with reduced odds of condom use
Worrying may have co-evolved with intelligence, according to a recent study.
BOSTON - Contrary to popular perception, a large proportion of obese Americans can and do lose weight, say researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. What's more, they say, the old tried and true methods of eating less fat and exercising are some of the most effective paths to weight loss success.
San Diego, CA, April 10, 2012 - A third of Americans are now obese, and up to 70% of them are trying to lose weight. In a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston have found in a nationally representative sample that obese dieters who said they ate less fat, exercised more, and used prescription weight loss medications were more likely to lose weight. Diet foods and products, non...
The neighborhoods in which children and adolescents live and spend their time play a role in whether or not they eat a healthy diet, get enough exercise or become obese, concludes a collection of studies in a special theme issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
A new study from Case Western Reserve University finds mothers tend to be more critical of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder than they are of other children in the family. And, that parental criticism is linked to poorer outcomes for the child after treatment.
A national study shows that women are less likely than men to get at least 30 minutes of exercise per day
Bras Make Breasts "Saggier", 15-year French Study Reveals 
Research Explains Why Some Soldiers don't suffer from PTSD 
Russian Gymnast Has the World's Strongest Vagina 
Study Finds Autistic People Do Not Hear Pleasure in Human Voices 
Red Meat Tied to Increasing Risk of Type Two Diabetes 
Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Early Puberty in Girls 
Blood Tests Capable of Detecting Oral Cancers Caused by Sex 
Waiting Could Be Better Than Radiation in Treating Early Prostate Cancer 
Dr. Oz’s Miracle Green Coffee Does Not Help with Weight Loss, Study Reports 
Hormonal Therapy For Transsexual Patients is Safe, Study 
