Generation Dropout
Lindsay Abrams is an editorial fellow with The Atlantic Health channel. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times.
At 18 months, babies who had come into repeated contact with their parents' saliva were 12 percent less likely to have asthma and 37 percent less likely to develop eczema. More »
People were 20 percent more likely to choose DNR if it was phrased as "allowing natural death;" 25 percent if they were told it's what most other people choose. More »
Kids who were better at reading and math at age seven ended up in a higher socioeconomic class age 42, regardless of what other advantages they had. More »
Researchers have spent the last decade trying to understand why some people are unable to appreciate music. More »
People who spent 20 minutes under UVA-radiating lamps appeared to experience cardiovascular benefits. More »
Japanese researchers believe they've found an antidote for men's susceptibility to femme fatales. More »
Alternative therapies meant to help us "break the train of everyday thinking" have effects on a cellular level. More »
Over 60 percent of adults who were diagnosed with depression by a clinician didn't meet the official criteria for the disorder upon re-evaluation. More »
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Children's book images, NSFW? NSFGFG (German First-Graders)? More »
Kids living in the U.S. who were born elsewhere are 59 percent less likely to have allergic diseases, but their risk increases with time spent in the country. More »
The obesity rate is 27.5 percent higher in New York City neighborhoods where the greatest proportion of people "like" television on Facebook. More »
It may be that "the tendency to have faith in conventional social constructs" can be generalized both to religion and the medical establishment. More »
Looking at how quickly different animals and even invidual cells die when they're isolated from others seems tell us something about the importance of social ties. More »
Audio recordings made in exam rooms indicate that doctors "operate at an emotional distance" from overweight and obese patients. More »
Participants in a German study did not react well to videos depicting robot torture. More »
How strongly people's mental health and life satisfaction correlated with their proximities to parks and gardens More »
"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it." -Braveheart (1995) More »
Earning an obituary in the New York Times is generally a good marker for above-average longevity, as long as that success in life isn't accompanied by fame. More »
A disaster-response behavioral health specialist discusses priorities. More »
