Young adult cancer patients may need different treatment options

Not all tumors are alike. Young adults who are diagnosed with skin, colon, and other cancer types may require different treatments than older patients receive. That is the primary conclusion of a Mount Sinai study which systematically compared the genomes of 14 different types of cancers that affected both younger and older adults. The results […]

Resilience training for young drivers reduces long-term crash risk

A study that tracked almost 21,000 young drivers for more than a decade has revealed that those who took part in a resilience program in Year 11 were much less likely to have a car crash during their early years behind the wheel. Published in Pediatrics today, the 13-year (2003–2016) DRIVE study followed drivers aged […]

Heavy drinking when young increases alcohol risk in early pregnancy

Young women who binge or frequently drink alcohol were more likely to drink during the early stages of pregnancy, according to new research. The study, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and Deakin University, found alcohol use was common among young adult women prior to becoming pregnant (72 percent) and in the first […]

Case study suggests young people may be susceptible to chronic fatigue following COVID-19

With more adolescents and young adults being treated for COVID-19, clinicians are concerned that these people also will start showing post-COVID—or “long haul”—symptoms from their bouts with the virus. A recent Johns Hopkins Medicine review of three case studies provides some of the first evidence that one serious post-COVID problem may be myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue […]

Heather Rae Young Hopes Motherhood Softens Pregnant Costar Christine Quinn

A changed woman! Heather Rae Young thinks that becoming a mom will have a major effect on pregnant Christine Quinn’s personality. Selling Sunset’s Pregnant Christine Quinn Debuts Bare Baby Bump: Photos “I’m thinking motherhood might soften her a little bit,” the California native, 33, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, February 23, of her Selling […]

Tarek El Moussa: It Took My Son 'a Few Weeks' to Adjust to Heather Rae Young

Taking his time. Tarek El Moussa and Christina Anstead’s 5-year-old son, Brayden, didn’t immediately connect with his dad’s fiancée, Heather Rae Young. Heather Rae Young’s Sweetest Moments With Tarek El Moussa’s 2 Kids “He was three years old [when] she came in one day out of nowhere and, like, just moved in,” the Tarek’s Flip […]

For young Californians, climate change is a mental health crisis too

Maddie Cole in eighth grade stopped running cross country. She’d competed the year before, but the air quality in her native Sacramento, California, was so bad that she got sick during a race; she soon learned she had asthma. The next year the sky above Sacramento turned gray with smoke from the 2018 Camp fire. […]

Young people embrace new model of teaching sexual consent, study finds

Sexual health charity Brook has adopted these latest research findings in its teaching methods A new nuanced way of teaching young people about consent that is based on their real-life experiences helps them develop a better understanding of sexual rights and ethics, a new study suggests. By teaching consent using this continuum style approach, rather […]

AHA News: Certain Antidepressants Might Increase Stroke Risk for Young Adults With PTSD

THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2020 (American Heart Association News) — Certain types of antidepressants might be better than others for treating PTSD because they carry a lower risk of stroke, according to a new study. The research, published Thursday in the American Heart Association journal Stroke, looked at data from 1.1 million U.S. veterans. It’s the […]

Researchers recommend bans on cellphone use for young drivers

In the United States, teen drivers are disproportionately at risk for motor vehicle crashes, even though they account for the lowest percentage of licensed drivers on the road. One common risky driving behavior both teens and adults engage in is cellphone use. A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and […]