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Depression Can Lead to Binge Eating in Teen Girls

Experts from the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health say that teen girls who are depressed are twice more likely to start binge eating than their peers. At the same time, young women who usually binge eat tend to be more likely to develop depression. In a paper published in the latest iss...

20 December 2011
10:26 GMT

Adolescent Girls Suffer Most When Losing Friendships

Scientists have determined in a new study that adolescent girls are the worst hit when they lose friendships. People in general have a hard time moving past such a loss, but the research suggests that young girls may be especially vulnerable to this type of hurt. Young boys are also heavily affected, more so than a...

25 November 2011
05:52 GMT

Girls with ADHD More Inclined to Abuse Drugs

According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that girls suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more likely to start using and abusing drugs that boys who suffer from the same condition.The finding was made by a team of investigators in Finland, who also found tha...

13 June 2011
08:30 GMT

Epilepsy May Cause Development Issues

Children who grow up suffering from epilepsy have a higher chance than their peers to experience psychiatric symptoms later on in life. Researchers identified that there is also a difference in the intensity and number of such symptoms between boys and girls with the condition. In other words, it would seem that gend...

28 March 2011
11:34 GMT

Women's Health Linked to Society's Expectations of Them

One of the reasons why adult women suffer from higher rates of certain diseases than men is the fact that society has certain expectations of them, says a philosopher in the United States. He proposes that Western-style societies may be planting the seeds for these diseases ever since the girls are very young.It is d...

27 January 2011
09:10 GMT

Bullying Boosts Drug Use in Teen Girls

According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that being subjected to regular and online bullying is causing a rise in substance abuse cases in adolescent girls.The mechanism through which this happens is indirect, scientists say. Previous studies have revealed that both boys and gir...

20 January 2011
09:43 GMT

New Test for Early Diagnosis of Turner Syndrome

A new study has proved the efficiency of a novel and accurate test for the early detection of Turner syndrome.Turner syndrome (TS) is the most frequent genetic problem that affects girls with short stature, and it occurs when an X-chromosome is completely or partially deleted.One in 1,500 to 2,000 live newborn girls ...

8 December 2010
09:56 GMT

Excess Meat Causes Early Puberty in Girls

According to a team of investigators in the United Kingdom, at the University of Brighton, it would appear that girls who have a diet featuring a lot of meat tend to hit puberty faster than their peers who consume much less of the stuff. The researchers believe that this is one of the main reasons why girls today ten...

11 June 2010
11:11 GMT

Boys and Girls Understand Being 'Mean' the Same Way

Researchers investigating the behavior of 11 to 13 year olds have recently determined that boys and girls of this age understand concepts such as “being mean” in the same way. As they grow older, and reach adulthood, the definitions for similar ideas change between young men and women, with the second gro...

2 March 2010
10:40 GMT

School Girls with an Eye for Science Arrive on Mac

Winter Wolves Game Studio has announced the release of Science Girls, a new role playing game (RPG) for Mac OS X. Players meet and recruit a variety of characters to help them as they explore the area around a school, engaging in turn-based combat with a constantly increasing number of enemies. The game costs US$9.99...

1 June 2009
10:04 GMT

Women Are More and More Attracted to Gaming

Women play games, and that shouldn't come as a shock to any of us, since it’s only natural that they also take pleasure in such pastimes. But recently, a survey conducted by the website PoshMama in partnership with E for All showed some pretty interesting results, and, although, in my opinion, th...

24 September 2008
08:06 GMT

Pantech IM-U300K Phone for Little Girls

Pantech has recently released a new mobile phone that seems to be targeting little girls. Launched under the SKY name (Pantech's brand for South Korea), the new handset is available via SK Telecom, the largest Korean mobile operator. Called SKY IM-U300K, the phone is a clamshell that comes with a set of externa...

19 June 2008
09:15 GMT

Beauty Factory Is Launched for Girls Only

Whenever we see that games are being developed especially for targets basically ignored in the past (young female gamers, in this case), we are absolutely happy: this is the right way to keep the industry growing and our girlfriends sympathetic of our obsessive gaming habits! One of the most recent companies that pla...

13 June 2008
03:35 GMT

Girls Equal Boys in Math

It is generally believed that boys are much better in math than girls, although a new study reveals that in countries with gender equality, girls are as good as boys in math, while in cultures where girls are not considered equal to boys the difference is obvious. This so-called gender gap was previously blamed on bi...

2 June 2008
05:33 GMT

Coolest Girl In School - the Mobile Game For Bad Girls

"Coolest Girl In School" is the name of a controversial mobile game developed by Champagne for the Ladies and Kukan Studio, two Australian providers of mobile entertainment. The game was first released in Australia, and it's now also available internationally, so anyone can try it out. Presented as being...

10 May 2008
07:46 GMT

Pink Nokia 6630 Smartphones For Free

I guess few mobile users ever thought about receiving a Nokia smartphone for free, but apparently this is possible, as All About Symbian reports that pink Nokia 6630 handsets are given to all those who buy a Girl Talk magazine. What's the connection between Nokia and Girl Talk? We don't know, but we do know...

1 April 2008
04:35 GMT

Grab Your DS and Imagine You Are a Rock Star

If you have ever dreamed of becoming a rock star and the games already available don't manage to rise up to your standards, we've got some good news for you: Ubisoft has decided to give it a try and brings you a new way of virtually pursuing your dream and they called it Imagine Rock Star. However, there mi...

24 March 2008
18:06 GMT

Frags, Women, Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

You must know about the Frag Dolls. They are Ubisoft's proof that girls too exist on "the interweb" and that not only can they play games that boys like, but they can also kick some ass while doing it. The original American Frag Dolls were recruited in 2004 and since then they've spent their time as game am...

10 March 2008
06:50 GMT

Video Strip Poker Classic Sexy Pack Up For Grabs

There is no easier way to have a successful game than introducing, somewhere, the possibility for players to enjoy some naked, smoking hot, chick bodies. Just imagine what happens if you have a game that is only about this! Well... Video Strip Poker Classic emerges in that case and allows you to play with the chicks ...

26 February 2008
08:27 GMT

Girls Rule the Web

Contrary to popular belief that has geeky looking guys standing in front of the monitor for hours and doing stuff that matters, a Pew Internet & American Life Project study has showed that it's actually girls that get most involved with the web and all that it stands for. And I did say girls, not women, as the r...

22 February 2008
07:06 GMT

High School Girls Selling Sex Via SMS

The Japanese police recently took into custody a group of junior and senior high school girls from Tokyo and Saitama, a neighboring city, who used coded messages to sell sex. Real sex, not just virtual sex. Apparently, potential customers received text messages similar to this: IkebLURV1800Yukichi2JC1, which l...

2 February 2008
06:01 GMT

Nerd Panties! Mario Touches the Spot Again

I have to hand it to him. Mario is without a doubt the luckiest guy on the planet, and he doesn't even have a real body. He just jumps around like a cretin all day long and what does he do? He steals all the women leaving us, tripping over coins and mushrooms as he rushes to satisfy them all.And it's not j...

18 January 2008
07:01 GMT

Kwari Lets You Play a FPS and Earn Some Cash

The game, similar in style with Quake or Unreal Tournament, can be downloaded for free from the official website. It is a MMO first person shooter that has a little twist - it gives its players the opportunity to earn cash for killing. And now it would be a great time to hear the opinions anti-violence, game-haters &...

16 January 2008
02:47 GMT

Rock Band or Halo 3 - Order Them With a Girl!

I don't even know what's more interesting: the fact that these two girls wanted to test if "sex sells" is really true, or the fact that people actually bid for this. Anyway, the marketing is great, you must admit it!Here are the facts: two young and sexy girls, all dressed in red latex (or something) Christ...

30 November 2007
05:11 GMT

Ubisoft's Imagine Game Series for Girls Is Out!

Ubisoft, creators of video-game masterpiece Assassin's Creed, have just gone public announcing that their Imagine series of video games is now available at retailers. The collection of games intended for girls ages 6 to 14, sports the following titles: Imagine Animal Doctor, Imagine Babyz, Imagine Fashion Design...

2 November 2007
05:48 GMT

Final Fantasy Girls Meet Dead or Alive Girls in a Neat Animation

Wow, I've lived to see every gamer's fantasy turn into reality ... The gorgeous Dead or Alive girls go one on one with those superb Final Fantasy feminine characters in animator Monty Oum's latest work. Yuna and Rikku are not here just to make a beautiful scene, but rather to kick some Kasumi fresh me...

15 October 2007
08:53 GMT

PSP Advertisement - Two Girls Touching Each Other. PSP... Around

Sony's commercials have always been a little abstract, strange, shocking... the list could go on. It's a fact: Sony doesn't like normal. Which is good, because people generally like surprises. And girls. Sony's betting on girls too. Aren't they smart? OK, but what the you-know-what is up with...

7 September 2007
05:02 GMT

The Girls of Need for Speed ProStreet and a New Trailer Available

It surely is a week of new trailers and demos, because after feasting upon the BioShock Xbox 360 demo yesterday, we now get the chance to check out a new Need for Speed ProStreet trailer here, a Developer's Diary to be more precise. This has just been released, but while snooping around for some extra info, we&#...

14 August 2007
05:36 GMT


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