The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has announced that it plans to add more locations to the National Children’s Study, “a large, long-term longitudinal study of environmental influences on children’s health and development.” The NICHD plans to issue an RFP within the next month.

NPR’s “Your Health” this morning focused on emerging adulthood. Read a transcript of the segment or listen at npr.org.

The story highlights the work of Larry Nelson at Brigham Young University, who surveyed college students and their parents and found that most of the parents did not consider their 18- to 26-year-old children adults.  His work is forthcoming in the Journal of Family Psychology.

Drug use among US teens has declined, but ecstasy use has increased and prescription drug abuse remains a problem, according to researchers working on the Monitoring the Future Survey for the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) (Reuters).