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Researchers from Yonsei University, in Seoul, South Korea, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health report in one of the largest studies to date (over 1.2 million study participants) that having either a high or low BMI increases risk of death. The researchers found that the effect of BMI on the risk of dying varied among major causes of death and that the risk of death from being overweight or obese was greater in younger people.

The latest research findings, announcements, and stories from the Bloomberg School.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children today released a study revealing important information about teens, sex and the Internet. University of New Hampshire (UNH) researchers conducted the study. They found that while using the Internet, more of today’s youth are exposed to pornography, but fewer receive sexual solicitations, compared to a comparable national sample from 1999.

Ciprian Crainiceanu, PhD, assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics, received the 2006 American Statistical Association’s Noether Young Scholar Award.