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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

ScienceDaily: Living Well News

ScienceDaily: Living Well News


Radiation exposure from medical imaging has increased even at HMOs

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:31 PM PDT

Concern about overexposure to radiation due to excessive use of medical imaging has come to the fore in recent years. Now, a new study shows that medical imaging is increasing even in health maintenance organization systems (HMOs), which don't have a financial incentive to conduct them.

Alcohol abuse may be cause, rather than effect of social isolation, poor grades among teens

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:14 AM PDT

Rather than gaining "liquid courage" to let loose with friends, teenage drinkers are more likely to feel like social outcasts, according to a new sociological study.

Losing money, emotions and evolution

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:14 AM PDT

Mildly stressful situations can affect our perceptions in the same way as life-threatening ones.

A father's love is one of the greatest influences on personality development

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:13 AM PDT

A father's love contributes as much -- and sometimes more -- to a child's development as does a mother's love. That is one of many findings in a new large-scale analysis of research about the power of parental rejection and acceptance in shaping our personalities as children and into adulthood.

Health behavior examined in long-term relationships

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 09:24 AM PDT

Results of a new study are based on in-depth interviews with couples in heterosexual marriages as well as gay and lesbian partnerships.

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