Anorexic Girls Bond on Web to Dismay of Doctors
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An underground subculture of teenage girls who bond over their eating disorders and glorify bone-thin celebrities has surfaced on the Internet, in a growing trend that experts say frustrates treatment.
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Browsing medical sites on the Internet can bring on a condition dubbed &quot;cyberchondria&quot;, in which patients diagnose themselves incorrectly and seek treatment they do not need, a British study said.
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SEOUL -- From their nondescript sixth-floor office, Kim Hee Joo and five other social workers troll the Internet to combat a disturbing trend in South Korea: people using the Internet to trade tips about suicide, and in some cases to form suicide pacts.
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NEW YORK  - People who seek out general weight loss information via Internet forums will, more often than not, receive correct information, especially if the messages are posted on heavily trafficked Internet sites, results of a study suggest.
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Many young women with a healthy body size worry about how they look, a BBC survey suggests.
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Is it OK for doctors and parents to tell children and teens they&#039;re fat?
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NEW YORK  - Young women showed less dissatisfaction with their weight and shape after participating in an Internet-based eating disorder prevention program, researchers from Germany found.
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NEW YORK  - For women recovering from anorexia nervosa, achieving a normal percentage of body fat seems to indicate that they have a good chance of beating the disease long-term.
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Overweight children are stigmatized by their peers as early as age 3 and even face bias from their parents and teachers, giving them a quality of life comparable to people with cancer, a new analysis concludes.
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When painful medicine is involved, closeness to a patient can make for fuzzy views.
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One in six calls to a 24-hour helpline last year concerning mental health came from girls contemplating suicide.
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Our sexual hang-ups translate into the world of online fantasy, too, inhibiting our development as sexual beings. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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By BILLY PATERSON CLAIMS that teen bullies are using an internet chat site to terrorise victims and identify targets are being probed by police.
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Most young people with an eating disorder say there is no-one they can turn to about their problem .
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An underground subculture of teenage girls who bond over their eating disorders and glorify bone-thin celebrities has surfaced on the Internet, in
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The illicit availability of slimming pills online fuels a slimming obsession, putting lives at risk, experts warn.
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For years, doctors have been relying on a vague nondiagnosis known by the acronym Ednos: eating disorder not otherwise specified.