“Facebook Depression”: Doctors Announce New Illness

CHICAGO (AP) – Add "Facebook depression" to potential harms linked with social media, an influential doctors' group warns, referring to a condition it says may affect troubled teens who obsess over the online site. Researchers disagree on whether it's simply an extension of depression some kids feel in other circumstances, or a distinct condition linked with ...

Head And Neck Cancer Linked To Oral Sex

Health Day: There's a worrisome uptick in the incidence of certain head and neck cancers among middle-aged and even younger Americans, and some experts link the trend to a rise in the popularity of oral sex over the past few decades. That's because the human papillomavirus (HPV) is a major trigger for these cancers, and HPV can ...

Drug Overdoses On The Rise In Most Age Groups, Especially Among Whites, Not Levelling Off

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -- More and more people are dying from abusing or misusing drugs, including both prescription and illegal drugs, new research suggests. In some groups, deaths from "accidental poisonings" -- most the result of drug overdoses -- are more than ten times higher than they were in the late 1960s, the study found. While ...