The people we associate with can have a powerful effect on our behavior –for better or for worse. This holds true for human health and bodymass, too. The heavier our close friends and family, the heavier we are likely to be. [More]
Childhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions. With more than one fourth of advertising on daytime and prime time television devoted to ...
FINDINGS: Historically, authorities have used broad media campaigns to encourage the public to prepare for disasters - an approach that has proven largely ineffective. For ...
FINDINGS: Historically, authorities have used broad media campaigns to encourage the public to prepare for disasters - an approach that has proven largely ineffective. For ...
A US study of the social networks of identical and non-identical twins concluded that a person's popularity (as measured by the number of times his ...
In an era when social networking sites and blogs are visited by three quarters of online users, it's only natural that the medical profession would ...