Starting periods early linked to health risks later in life

A range of reproductive factors are linked with health risks in a new study. As cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide, it is vital to understand what increases risk. Although many of the factors involved — such as obesity, hypertension, and smoking — are now …

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it was expanding religious freedom protections for doctors, nurses and other health care workers who object to performing procedures like abortion and gender reassignment surgery, satisfying religious conservatives who have …

Being overweight often goes with a number of health problems, but it also has psychological effects. Children who are overweight are more prone to low self-esteem, negative body image, and depression. Due to the size of this issue, much research is focused on trying to understand the psychology behind …

Approximately 48.3 million adults in the United States are faced with a mental healthcondition each year, and 9.8 million of those are serious conditions that limit the activities of everyday life. Among U.S. adults aged 18–44, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder are now the third most …

Regular family mealtimes may benefit children’s physical and mental health. Researchers have found that children who often ate meals with their family at the age of 6 years old had better social skills and general fitness by the age of 10, compared with those who rarely spent mealtimes with their family.

What are you supposed to do when, as a person struggling with health anxiety, you come across an article linking anxiety to a disease you’re already terrified of? This is exactly what happened to me, scrolling through the news on my morning break. Suddenly, there it was, as if the words had been …

It’s time you make some changes in your life. It’s time to kick it up a notch. It’s time to do that thing, meet that goal, or reach that desired outcome. But you’ve tried this before and you didn’t make it happen. You just weren’t disciplined enough. You failed. You’ll probably fall short this time too. So why bother?

Everywhere we turn—Facebook, YouTube, TV, our phones—we hear different, competing messages about health. Eat only plants. Go paleo. Run a lot. Don’t run at all. Yoga is life-changing. Yoga is boring. This is the magic bullet for weight loss. There’s no such thing as a magic bullet for weight loss!

The World Health Organization will add “gaming disorder” to its International Classification of Diseases in 2018. By Alexa Lardieri, Staff Writer |Dec. 26, 2017, at … The World Health Organization is adding an unexpected disorder to its list of mental health conditions in 2018. Next year, people who play an …

Senate Democrats in Washington are questioning the Trump administration’s decision to get rid of a national database that behavioral health officials rely on. The National Registry for Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is designed to offer those on the front lines a way to find out what …