HealthDay (7/2, Thompson) reports a new study suggests that “social media is helping spur the e-cigarette epidemic among America’s teens.” Researchers found that “nearly 15,000 Instagram posts related to Juul, the most popular e-cigarette brand, were released between March and May 2018,” and “more than half of the posts focused on youth culture or lifestyle-related content that would appeal to teens.” The study was published in the journal Tobacco Control.

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— “Social Media a Big Driver of Teen Vaping Craze: Study, ” Dennis Thompson, HealthDay, July 02, 2019

Healio (7/2) reports a study found that “higher levels of self-reported physical activity were associated with a lower risk of developing anxiety and anxiety disorders.” Researchers “searched databases, including PubMed, Embase and Web of Science, to identify prospective studies that measured the odds ratio of incident anxiety in individuals with high levels of physical activity against those with low physical activity.” The findings were published in Depression and Anxiety.

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— “High levels of physical activity protect against anxiety-related disorders, “Alexandria Brooks, Healio, July 02, 2019

The Wall Street Journal (7/1, Chapman, Subscription Publication) reports the New York Police Department is seeking help from other departments on decreasing suicide among its officers. The article points out that six NYPD officers have died by suicide so far this year.

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— “NYPD Turns to Other Departments for Help After Series of Suicides, ” Ben Chapman, The Wall Street Journal, July 01, 2019

Reuters (7/1, Carroll) reports, “Just like cigarettes, alcohol creates secondhand harms,” research indicated. After examining “data from two nationally representative surveys: the 2015 National Alcohol’s Harm to Others Survey, which contained information on 2,830 adults, and the 2015 National Alcohol Survey, which contained data on 7,071 adults,” investigators found that “more than one in five women and nearly one in four men experienced some harm related to someone else’s drinking.” The findings were published online June 30 in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

CNN (7/1, Howard) reports that for the study, “each adult was asked whether they had experienced any of 10 different types of harm in the past 12 months caused by ‘someone who had been drinking.’” Included in the “different types of harm” were “harassment; feeling threatened or afraid; having belongings ruined; having property vandalized; being pushed, hit or assaulted; being physically harmed; being in a traffic accident; being a passenger in a vehicle with a drunk driver; having family or marital problems; and having financial trouble.” Healio (7/1, Miller) also covers the story.

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— “Alcohol’s secondhand harms prevalent among U.S. women and men, “Linda Carroll, Reuters, July 01, 2019

Healio (6/28, Demko) reported, “Multimorbidity using a validated index weighted to physical functioning was linked to faster decline in global cognition and verbal memory over time among U.S. middle-aged and older adults,” research indicated. The findings of the 14,265-participant study were published online June 6 in the Journals of Gerontology Series A.

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— “Multimorbidity accelerates cognitive decline in older adults, “Savannah Demko, Healio, June 28, 2019