TUESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Fewer U.S. college students (1 in 5) are smoking than ever before, but college and university leaders need to take a stand against aggressive tobacco industry marketing tactics to ensure student smoking rates don't increase, a new American Lung Association report finds.

My neighbor's youngest son just left for college. He is doing OK, but he says his wife is sad to come home to an "empty house". He jokes, saying, "what am I, chopped liver?!". But, we all know what she is going through: Empty Nest Syndrome.

I found an article on the EmpowHer site regarding Empty Nest Syndrome: http://empowher.com/encyclopedia/empty-n...

Is anyone else going through this? How are you handling it?

MONDAY, June 9 (HealthDay News) -- College students who are morning people tend to get better grades than those who are night owls, according to University of North Texas researchers.

They had 824 undergraduate students complete a health survey that included questions about sleep habits and daytime functioning, and found that students who are morning people had higher grade point averages (GPAs) than those who are night people.

WEDNESDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- Being well-educated can lengthen your life span, according to new study.

The research, published in the May 14 issue of PLoS ONE, shows that the gap in overall death rates between Americans with less than a high school education and college graduates increased rapidly from 1993 to 2001.