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• Family History of Alcoholism May Affect Adolescents’ Brains

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 595
  A new study has found that the brains of adolescents with a family history of alcoholism respond differently while making risky decisions than the brains of other teens. Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University discovered that two areas of the brain — the prefrontal cortex and cerebellum — ...
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• You choose better to be too fat or starving?

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm Children are the most visible victims of undernutrition.  Children who are poorly nourished suffer up to 160 days of illness each year. Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of the 10.9 million child deaths each year–five million ...
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• The New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines: What You Need to Know

  
  Women's Voices For Change — Authority: 114
  By Elizabeth Poynor, M.D., Ph.D Two years ago, panels of experts recommended that some women have less frequent screenings. Should you follow the new guidelines?
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• Parent Involvement, Coping Skills Reduce Gang Allure

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 595
  Researchers have found that moderate levels of parental monitoring combined with good coping skills can keep high-risk kids out of gangs. Experts say that gangs accounted for 20 percent of the murders in 88 of the largest cities in the U.S. between 2002 and 2006. Researchers looked at methods to actively discourage ...
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• Surprise: Media Can Aid in Better Diet and Health

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 595
  A new study from Italy attempts to get a fuller picture of how mas media impacts health habits, and finds that television, print media and the Internet may be commonly associated with decreasing physical activity, but they also inform people on positive behaviors such as healthy eating. Researchers at ...
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• Well-informed people eat better

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  London, Jan 17 (IANS) People who keep themselves better informed with the help of the print and electronic media and the internet tend to stick to the healthiest eating pattern in the world.This is the finding of a study conducted by the ‘Research Laboratories’ at the Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura “Giovanni ...
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• Group Insurance

  
  College Debt Tips and Advice — Authority: 133
  As the name implies, group insurance refers to an insurance policy designed to cover a group of people such as; a member of a society, employee of a company and a group of professionals in a certain common group. Group coverage can prove helpful in reducing the problem of unfavorable selection by forming a group of ...
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• Iveda Solutions Jumpstarts the New Year With US $2.2 M SafeCiti(TM)Contract

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  MESA, AZ, Jan 11, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –Iveda Solutions, Inc. /quotes/zigman/572475 IVDA -3.96% announced today that MEGAsys,its subsidiary in Taiwan, was awarded a remote digital videorecording systems engineering contract by the New Taipei City PoliceDepartment. the award is worth NT$ 66,511,768 ...
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• Discrimination Could Be Harmful to Your Health

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 595
  Racial discrimination may be harmful to your health, according to new research. In a new study, Drs, Jenifer Bratter and Bridget Gorman, Rice University sociologists, found that approximately 18 percent of blacks and 4 percent of whites reported higher levels of emotional upset and physical symptoms due to perceived ...
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• Physician of faith discusses domestic violence issues in Spanish

  
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  Violencia Doméstica book cover Photos: Concordia Publishing House In past years, nearly one in four adult women and one in nine men in the United States have reported experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) at some point in their lives; among Hispanics 20.5 percent of women and 15.5 percent of men suffer ...
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• The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  Do we consider socioeconomic factors such as income, education and ethnicity enough in research and disease prevention? read more
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• The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  Do we consider socioeconomic factors such as income, education and ethnicity enough in research and disease prevention? read more
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• FoxConn Workers Threaten Mass Suicide If Working Conditions Aren’t Fixed

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 127
  FoxConn, which at last count had well over 1 million workers and rising, appears to have had enough of being the global electronic gadget sweatshop, and as the Telegraph reports , saw its workers threaten with mass suicides unless working conditions are not improved. "Around 150 Chinese workers at Foxconn, the ...
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