MILLENNIALS often get a bad rap from the mainstream media, but not from doctors in Vancouver.
According to medical professionals working in the Canadian city, they have noted an uptick in the number of unvaccinated teens seeking to be inoculated against measles against parents' wishes.
"Some of them said their parents were against vaccination because of unreliable sources of information that they received," said Dr Eric Cadesky, a family physician and president of Doctors of B.C.
The phenomenon follows nine recorded cases of measles at two French-language schools in Vancouver, a cluster that began after an unvaccinated child contracted the disease during a family trip to Vietnam.
A SAN Diego researcher is looking into whether social media affects the teenage brain the same way as marijuana.
"Kids keep using social media even in the face of negative consequences and that's what we see with drug usage as well," said child psychologist Dr Kara Bagot.
When asked how the test will be conducted, Bagot quipped, "No one will be smoking for this study - we're not that progressive."
Bagot's team will scan 60 teens' brains as they look at images from social media and then pictures of marijuana.
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