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Spending too much time on screens may cause emotional and behavioral problems in children—and those problems can lead to even more screen use, according to research published in the journal Psychological Bulletin and titled “Electronic screen use and children’s socio-emotional problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.”

What’s happening inside the brain of a passionate hockey fan during a big game? A new study from the University of Waterloo gives a closer look at how the brain functions when watching sports, with data showing how different a die-hard fan’s experience is from that of a casual viewer.

Your teen’s sleeping habits may affect how their brain functions, according to new research from the University of Georgia published in Brain and Behavior. And lack of quality sleep may put kids at risk of developing problem behaviors in the future.

Measles has been rising globally in recent years. There were an estimated 10.3 million cases worldwide in 2023, a 20% increase from 2022.

Summer hasn’t officially started, but already smoke from wildfires across the Prairie provinces has descended on us, sparking states of emergency and evoking memories of the 2023 wildfire season—the smokiest on record in Edmonton and Calgary.

One in every 10 kids in the United States has asthma, a chronic breathing condition that can affect nearly every part of their lives. Asthma is one of the main reasons kids miss school and a leading cause of childhood hospitalization.

For some, Osteoboost might initially evoke TV informercials for gadgets that promise to shock people’s abdominal muscles into six-pack formation while they sit, or mid-20th century contraptions that professed to jiggle away fat without exercise.

JoEllen Zembruski-Ruple, while in the care of New York City’s renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, swallowed the first three chemotherapy pills to treat her squamous cell carcinoma on Jan. 29, her family members said. They didn’t realize the drug could kill her.

GIDEON NYENDWA ZAMBIA Must Prosper (ZMP) President Kelvin Bwalya, popularly known as KBF, has vowed to honor the legacy of the late President Edgar Lungu by endeavouring to unite the country’s opposition forces. Speaking during his visit to the Patriotic Front (PF) secretariat, where he signed the book of condolence for the late president, Mr. […]

You’re not just getting older, you’re probably getting bigger.