Although some advocates want to lower the legal drinking age from 21, research continues to show that the law saves lives. That's the finding of a new review published in a special supplemental issue to the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and ...
Tags: Addiction, Drugs, Education, Public Health, Seniors
Today's headlines include progress reports on health exchanges in Washington state and New York as well as poll results on Virginia's Medicaid Expansion. Kaiser Health News: Insuring Your Health: Advocates Worry That Drug Company ...
Tags: Health&Medicine
Parents who spank their children believe it's an effective form of discipline. But decades of research studies have found that spanking is linked to short- and long-term child behavior problems. Is there any way to get parents to change ...
Tags: child behavior, George Holden, co-authors, SMU
More than a third of all Americans -- and nearly six out of 10 U.S. university students -- have used indoor tanning, despite widespread knowledge that the devices contribute to skin cancer risk, a new study finds. Researchers at the ...
Tags: indoor tanning, teens
One of the few studies of its type has found that a startling 59 percent of college students at one Oregon university were "food insecure" at some point during the previous year, with possible implications for academic success, physical and ...
Tags: food insecure, the freshman 15, Oregon, College Student
Feeling a little fat after the holidays? Beware. Reading a news story that seems to devalue people who are overweight might make you more likely to reach for snacks to soothe your anxiety. Media stories that focus on topics such as the ...
Researchers Uri Gneezy, with the University of California and Alex Imasc with the University of Amsterdam have together found that men understand the impact anger has on decision making and use that knowledge to help them manipulate other ...
Sexual experimentation outside of committed romantic relationships, or "hooking up," is typically portrayed by the media as unhealthy, especially for young women. These portrayals, however, are largely conjecture. Researchers from Syracuse ...
That initial warm welcome from parents when college students return home for the holidays can turn frosty with unexpected tension and conflict, an expert warns. "Parents are often shocked when kids spend days sleeping and the nights out ...
Tags: college students, holidays
EarMuffers™today introduces revolutionary earplugs that muffle, rather than completely eliminate, sound so that users are not disturbed by sound yet can hear alarms. Based on a patented methodology, the earplugs have secured one of ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
How many empty beer cans, soda bottles and fifths of vodka did you see as you left that off-campus party last Friday night? Where do you imagine they went the next day when the owners cleaned up the house? For 17 off-campus student houses ...
Tags: Recycles Cans, Glass
NRF expects sales in the months of November and December to marginally increase 3.9 percent to $602.1 billion, over 2012’s actual 3.5 percent holiday season sales growth. The forecast is higher than the 10-year average holiday sales ...
Tags: Holiday Season, Apparel
Consumers who plan to buy eco-friendly bamboo apparel are attracted if the price is right, but their next consideration is the novelty of the product, according to a new study by Baylor University researchers. Bamboo has been championed ...
Tags: Bamboo Garments, Textile
Taiwan's packaging machinery industry has been developed over the decades by local companies using skills and know-how learned from overseas, initially with the aim of replacing imports. The industry went on to become an exporter, and many ...
Tags: Packaging Machine
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) today announced LEED Professional Credentials have been approved for college credit through New Jersey's State Energy Sector Partnership (SESP) initiative. SESP is the result of an award to the NJ ...
Tags: Green Building, Construction