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Women are less likely to procreate in urban areas

A new study in Behavioral Ecology, published by Oxford University Press, finds that women are less likely to procreate in urban areas that have a higher percentage of females than males in the population.

18 Mar 2021

Study of newlyweds suggests a possible genetic link to marriage satisfaction

Variation in a specific gene could be related to traits that are beneficial to bonding and relationship satisfaction in the first years of a marriage, according to a new study by a University of Arkansas psychologist.

18 Feb 2021

After nearly 60 years of marriage, this Missouri couple stayed together to the end

Arthur Kelley could barely raise his voice above a whisper last fall when he told a nursing assistant he never wanted his wife, Maggie, to be alone. After almost 60 years of marriage, five children and a lifetime filled with more victories than defeat, Kelley wanted to be there for his ailing wife, even if she didn't know he was there.

8 Feb 2021

Advocates view health care as key to driving LGBTQ rights conversation

When Allison Scott came out as a trans woman in 2013, she told not only family and friends, but also her primary care physician.

20 Jan 2021

Researchers explore link between work addiction risk and health-related outcomes

Workaholism or work addiction risk is a growing public health concern that can lead to many negative mental and physical health outcomes such as depression, anxiety or sleep disorder.

13 Jan 2021

Stress during pregnancy could affect the baby's chance of developing multiple diseases

Stress on an expectant mother could affect her baby's chance of developing disease - perhaps even over the course of the child's life, UC researchers have found.

12 Jan 2021

Study shows persistence of child marriage in Canada

Canada is at the forefront of global efforts to end child marriage abroad. Yet this practice remains legal and persists across the country.

8 Jan 2021

Live free or die if you must, say Colorado urbanites — but not in my hospital

Whenever Larry Kelderman looks up from the car he's fixing and peers across the street, he's looking across a border. His town of 28,000 straddles two counties, separated by County Line Road.

29 Dec 2020

Psychological flexibility may be the key to happy romantic and familial relationships

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," Leo Tolstoy wrote famously in 1878 in the opening lines of Anna Karenina. Turns out the Russian author was onto something.

26 Nov 2020

Loneliness in Parkinson's disease may increase risk for symptom severity

Research from UCLA scientists and colleagues from other institutions finds that people with Parkinson's disease who lack meaningful social interactions may be at an increased risk for severe symptoms related to the disease.

18 Nov 2020

Medical diagnoses of “diseases of despair” increase in Pennsylvania

Medical diagnoses involving alcohol-related disorders, substance-related disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors – commonly referred to as diseases of despair – increased in Pennsylvania health insurance claims between the years 2007 and 2018, according to researchers from Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute and Highmark Health Enterprise Analytics.

10 Nov 2020

Adolescent boys have higher mortality due to unintentional injury, interpersonal violence

A new study on gender equality in health and wellbeing in the Asia Pacific region calls for greater attention to be paid to excess mortality and health risks experienced by boys in the first 20 years of life.

9 Nov 2020

Coming abortion fight could threaten birth control, too

Abortion opponents were among those most excited by the addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. And they had good reason to be.

5 Nov 2020

People exposed to chemical warfare agents feel uncertain about family building

People who have been exposed to chemical warfare agents (CWAs) feel uncertain, decades after the exposure, about their survival and ability to build a family, a University of Gothenburg study shows. Women are more severely affected than men.

30 Oct 2020

Couples who fight often are more likely to experience loneliness and poor physical health

Healthy couples fight. But couples that clash often are more likely to experience feelings of loneliness and poorer physical health down the line, according to new University of Georgia research.

21 Oct 2020

Rituals help magnify normative relationship experiences

Rituals such as those centered around holidays and other celebrations play an important part in human relationships.

16 Oct 2020

Combination of biology and lifestyle increases COVID-19 mortality in men

Being a man, having a lower income, having a lower level of education, not being married, and being born abroad in low- or middle-income countries - these are factors that, independent of one another, are related to an elevated risk of dying from COVID-19 in Sweden.

12 Oct 2020