Monday, January 5, 2009
Medical News of the Obvious
This week in Medical News of the Obvious, sex, drugs and...puppies? To wit:
Teens talk about having sex, using drugs and drinking alcohol on their MySpace profiles! The researchers who "discovered" this also created a profile of a "Dr. Meg," and sent messages to the teens who talked about sex/substances to tell them their profiles contained "risky information." Guess what? Many of the teens removed the info from their profile. Because nothing is more creepy...I mean, helpful and effective...than the idea of a stranger mining your profile for news about your sex life.
Meanwhile, people who are at high risk of driving drunk are most deterred by the belief that they are likely to get arrested or pulled over, not by drunk driving laws themselves. So laws aren't useful unless you enforce them. Got it.
You know how animals can cheer up the elderly and the ill? Well, puppies make college students happy, too! "Even younger, healthier young adults can benefit from living with our four-legged friends," the lead author said in a press release. Young and old: we're not so different, after all!
And speaking of the elderly, an AP report finds that the best-rated nursing homes in Massachusetts are usually located in the wealthiest areas. Next on the AP Investigations Team schedule: Is school district quality related to median income? Stay tuned...
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