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Social media exposure associated with steroid use intentions among boys and men

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A new study of more than 1,500 boys and men in Canada and the United States suggests that social media may play a meaningful role in shaping intentions to use anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), particularly when users are exposed to muscularity-focused content and engage in body comparisons online.  The study, based on data from The Study … Read more

Older Americans more exposed to dubious health information

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Even as misinformation proliferates across the Internet, sites containing low-credibility health information remain relatively scarce and unseen. That’s according to new research from University of Utah communication scholars who tracked web-surfing activities of more than 1,000 U.S. adults for four weeks. But the findings, published in Nature Aging, illuminate a dark side. Traffic to such … Read more