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• School policies reduce student drinking –- if they're perceived to be enforced
• Avoidance strategies can be valuable stress reliever, says study on work/life/school balance
• Parasites in cat feces: Potential public health problem?
• Dip, dip, hooray -- Kids eat more veggies with flavored dips
• Your primary school language reveals if you move away or stay behind
• Sleepless nights can turn lovers into fighters
• Rate of aging may be determined in the womb and linked to birthweight, study reveals
• What warring couples want: Power, not apologies, study shows
• Women working shifts are at greater risk of miscarriage, menstrual disruption and subfertility
• Irregular bed times curb young kids' brain power: And may have knock-on effects on health throughout life
• Health-related website search information may be leaked to third-party tracking entities
• Early, late first exposure to solid food appears associated with development of Type 1 diabetes

School policies reduce student drinking –- if they're perceived to be enforced Posted: 09 Jul 2013 11:33 AM PDT Anti-alcohol policies on middle and high school campuses do work, but only if students believe they will be enforced. Harsh punishment doesn't deter drinking, but counseling does.

Avoidance strategies can be valuable stress reliever, says study on work/life/school balance Posted: 09 Jul 2013 09:41 AM PDT If achieving a work/life balance wasn't hard enough, researchers say many of us are juggling a third factor: school. That creates conflicts, often resulting in dissatisfaction in the area that caused that conflict. But avoidance techniques can help, their most recent study shows.

Parasites in cat feces: Potential public health problem? Posted: 09 Jul 2013 09:41 AM PDT Each year in the United States, cats deposit about 1.2 million metric tons of feces into the environment, and that poop is carrying with it what may be a vast and underappreciated public health problem, say scientists.

Dip, dip, hooray -- Kids eat more veggies with flavored dips Posted: 09 Jul 2013 08:59 AM PDT Many parents have a difficult time persuading their preschool-aged children to try vegetables, let alone eat them regularly. Food and nutrition researchers have found that by offering a dip flavored with spices, children were more likely to try vegetables -- including those they had previously rejected.

Your primary school language reveals if you move away or stay behind Posted: 09 Jul 2013 08:53 AM PDT The way you speak in primary school reveals if you will stay behind in your native part of the country or head for the big city to get an education, according to new research.

Sleepless nights can turn lovers into fighters Posted: 09 Jul 2013 06:51 AM PDT Relationship problems can keep us awake at night. But new research suggests that sleepless nights also can worsen lovers' fights.

Rate of aging may be determined in the womb and linked to birthweight, study reveals Posted: 09 Jul 2013 06:48 AM PDT Scientists have found that key metabolites in blood -- chemical 'fingerprints' left behind as a result of early molecular changes before birth or in infancy -- could provide clues to a person's long-term overall health and rate of aging in later life.

What warring couples want: Power, not apologies, study shows Posted: 09 Jul 2013 06:48 AM PDT The most common thing that couples want from each other during a conflict is not an apology, but a willingness to relinquish power, according to a new Baylor University study.

Women working shifts are at greater risk of miscarriage, menstrual disruption and subfertility Posted: 09 Jul 2013 06:47 AM PDT Shift work, which encourages sleep deprivation and patterns of activity outside the circadian rhythm, has been associated with a greater risk of ill health and loss of well-being in some studies. However, little is known about the effects of shift work on reproductive health and fertility. A new study indicates that working shift patterns is associated with an increased risk of menstrual disruption and subfertility.

Irregular bed times curb young kids' brain power: And may have knock-on effects on health throughout life Posted: 08 Jul 2013 05:01 PM PDT Going to bed at different times every night throughout early childhood seems to curb children's brain power, finds a large, long term study.

Health-related website search information may be leaked to third-party tracking entities Posted: 08 Jul 2013 02:09 PM PDT Patients who search on free health-related websites for information related to a medical condition may have the health information they provide leaked to third party tracking entities through code on those websites, according to new research.

Early, late first exposure to solid food appears associated with development of Type 1 diabetes Posted: 08 Jul 2013 01:19 PM PDT Both an early and late first exposure to solid food for infants appears to be associated with the development of Type 1 diabetes mellitus, according to a new study.

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