May 7th, 2013

A new study reports that nearly 20 percent of suicidal children and teens have guns in their homes.
What's more, 15 ...
May 6th, 2013

A new study shows that girls in high school who exercise regularly are at a lower risk of fighting or being in a gang.
For the ...
May 6th, 2013

Early childhood adversity -- such as maltreatment, exposure to domestic violence, or living with another person with serious mental illness -- may carry heavy consequences from generation to generation, ...
May 5th, 2013

Several new studies presented at the International Society for Autism Research annual conference back up the notion that environmental factors before birth may play an important role ...
May 5th, 2013

A new study reports that babies whose growth in the womb is at either end of the extreme -- either very small ...
May 4th, 2013

In what may seem an unusual finding, teens with high blood pressure appear to be better psychologically adjusted and enjoy a higher ...
May 2nd, 2013

An international team of researchers has determined that child abuse leaves a distinct change in biological pathways.
Such discoveries have the ...
May 2nd, 2013

As the spring semester nears the end, a growing number of college students are tweeting about their use of the ADHD medication Adderall.
Twitter allows ...
April 28th, 2013

A relatively high number of abnormal folds and cell growths in the placenta could be a strong indicator of an infant's risk for developing autism, according to new research ...
April 27th, 2013

Babies whose mothers experienced high anxiety while pregnant had stifled immune responses to vaccinations at 6 months old, according to a new study. However, this lowered ...