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According to Reuters, “Children were the leading growth demographic for the pharmaceutical industry in 2009, with the increase of prescription drug use among youngsters nearly four times higher than in the overall population.” Last year, over one in four children in the U.S. and almost 30 percent of adolescents took at least one prescription medicine to treat a chronic condition.
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It’s not an easy task to quit smoking, but it is an easy habit to pick up and those who are depressed are much more likely to start. HealthDay.com reports that the connection between smoking and depression is very strong and very real. In general, adults are more likely to smoke, but “people aged 20 and older with depression are twice as likely as others to be cigarette smokers,” report the researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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While playing any sport you take the risk of injuring yourself; however, kids are much more susceptible to sports injuries for many reasons. Children are “less coordinated and have slower reaction times than adults because they are still growing and developing,” reports KidsHealth.org. Also, kids grow and mature at different rates, so even though kids on the same team are the same age, their sizes vary greatly, which can also increase the risk of injury. And kids tend to not think things through all the way, so they may take risks while playing sports without realizing that they could seriously injure themselves.
Even though kids seem to be more likely to get injured while playing sports, there are several things you can do to lessen the chance of injury.
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Do you ever wish you took advantage of those naps as a little kid? Our lives now are extremely busy and exhausting, we are sleep deprived, and can’t seem to find a minute to just relax. I know as a college student I am constantly trying to cram in just a 20 minute nap hoping to have more energy when I wake up, and according to new research, these afternoon naps I try and fit into my daily schedule actually are quite beneficial. A new study found “that young adults who slept for 90 minutes after lunch raised their learning power, [and] their memory apparently primed to absorb new facts,” reports Roni Caryn Rabin from The New York Times.
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A new study revealed that a hormone that strengthens the relationship between mother and baby may be beneficial for adults with autism. JoAnne Allen from Reuters reports, “[Researchers] found patients who inhaled the hormone oxytocin paid more attention to expressions when looking at pictures of faces and were more likely to understand social cues in a game simulation.” According to Allen, “Angela Sirigu of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience in Lyon, who led the study, said the hormone has a therapeutic potential in adults as well as in children with autism.”
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The internet is becoming the go-to solution for almost everything. People use the internet for a news source, for communicating, for research, for entertainment, and now more and more people are using the web to look up health information. According to the first National Health Interview Survey, in one year a little over half of U.S. adults used the internet to look up health information.
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A new study shows that children who are exposed to secondhand smoke have a higher chance of having emphysema as adults. Gina S. Lovasi, PhD, states that, “Structural and quantitative indices of emphysema differed significantly on CT lung scans of adults with a childhood history of secondhand smoke exposure compared with those with a negative exposure history.”
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