Children's Health: Higher cigarette taxes linked to fewer infant deaths ♦ We change after we start dating, ♦ on’t want to raise a psychopath?

Higher cigarette taxes linked to fewer infant deaths Higher taxes and prices for cigarettes are strongly associated with lower infant mortality rates in the United State. The association was stronger for African American infants than for non-Hispanic white infants, which has implications for trying to reduce disparities in infant mortality between the two groups

We change after we start dating, Researchers put to test the hypothesis that adolescents become less similar to their friends and more similar to romantic partners after they start a new romantic relationship. This first study to use longitudinal data is a stark reminder how the peer social world changes during adolescence, and same-sex friends become less important and romantic affiliations become more important.

Interventions may temporarily raise kids' IQs, but there is fadeout over time A meta-analysis shows that the beneficial effects of interventions to raise intelligence in young children fade over time

Don’t want to raise a psychopath? Be sensitive to a child’s distress How do you stop a child, especially one who has experienced significant adversity, from growing up to be a psychopath? Responsive, empathetic care giving -- especially when children are in distress -- helps prevent boys from becoming callous, unemotional adolescents.

Health Research: Often decried, polygyny may sometimes have advantages ♦ Increasing cigarette taxes shifts consumers to more dangerous products

New finding will help target multiple sclerosis immune response Researchers have made another important step in the progress towards being able to block the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases.

Often decried, polygyny may sometimes have advantages The practice of sharing a husband may, in some circumstances, lead to greater health and wealth for women and their children, new research suggests. And polygyny--where one husband has more than one wife--is decried by the United Nations Human Rights Committee and women's rights organizations as discriminatory to women.

Increasing cigarette taxes shifts consumers to more dangerous products Increasing cigarette excise taxes may have the unintended consequence of encouraging consumers to seek higher nicotine content and more dangerous cigarette products.

Greater support needed for pregnant transgender men Many transgender men who have the capacity to bear children are faced with barriers in the health-care system as a result of a lack of training.