Healthline Blogs
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Manorexia: Males and Eating Disorders
A recent parenting tip from commonsense media reported that 25% of anorexics and bulimics, as well as 40% of binge eaters were men. Unlike females, who just want to be thin, men involved with recent research at Harvard cite a desire to have chisel...
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Book Review: The Sharp Brains Guide to Brain Fitness
I was lucky enough to be asked to review the new book, The Sharp Brains Guide to Brain Fitness: 18 Interviews with Scientists, Practical Advice, and Product Reviews, to Keep Your Brain Sharp, by Alvaro Fernandez and Elkhonon Goldberg (2009), and ...
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Teen Talk Sexuality & Education
Sometimes there are wonderful resources right under my nose and I do not find them for a while. This is the case with Teen Talk Sexuality - a wonderful group of people doing amazing sexuality education work with schools and communities in the San ...
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Your Kids and Investing
There is something about the New Year that encourages people to take stock of their financial standing and think about their futures - maybe it is having to do the taxes! There was an interesting article this month in the Costco Connection by Jim ...
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Mycoplasma Genitallium: An Emerging Sexually Transmitted Infection
Great! Just what we need another sexually transmitted infection to worry about. A report entitled "Mycoplasma genitalium among young adults in the United Stated: An emerging sexually transmitted infection," was recently published in the American J...
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College Letters are Coming
Colleges across the country are sending out letters this month - acceptances and rejections - to millions of students whose life path will change with the coming of Spring. By May 1, 2010 most of them will have put down a deposit and accepted a sp...
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Girls and Sports - Results from Seventeen and WNBA
Seventeen Magazine and the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) recently conducted a survey about how sports impact the lives of teen girls. The results may surprise you - they did me. According to this survey (of only about 1,000 young...
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Teens and Stress
Like adults, teens can become stressed out without knowing it is happening. One minute all is well, but then he or she gets behind in homework or starts one too many after school activity, or projects are due all at once, or a team goes to nation...
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California Graduated Drivers License
For the last 10 years California has had a law that requires all new teen drivers to get their license through a three-step process. This graduated license law was developed to reduce the number of teen accidents and fatalities of drivers between ...
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Thank You - Grand Rounds 5.21
Thank you to Matthew Holt at The Health Care Blog for including my post about HIV Testing in Grand Rounds 5. 21 this week.Special thanks for including Wax Poetically (it is about ear wax) from Musings of a Distractible Mind - it was a wonderful wa...
