News tagged with behavioural factors

Parents important for keeping adolescents off alcohol

Parents who are both present and engaged are the very best way of preventing teenagers from consuming large quantities of alcohol. Adolescents who smoke, stay out with their friends and have access to alcohol - from their ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Niceness' partly genetic, say scientists

Selflessness and civic-mindedness can be inherited, especially if you are a woman, according to a new study.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 13

New study contradicts negative perceptions of menopause

New research from the University of Sheffield has found that social and psychological factors have the biggest influence upon women's sexual behaviour during the menopause, rather than biological changes such as declining ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Childhood obesity link to parents

The relationships between children and their parent of the same gender in the earliest years of life could be the key to understanding why some young people become obese and others do not, new research conducted by the EarlyBird ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0