Health
Cash for weight loss? Works better when employees compete for pots of money, study finds
Do cash rewards for healthier habits work? Maybe, says a new study, if you add on one more condition – peer pressure.
Apr 1, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New studies link gene to selfish behavior in kids, find other children natural givers
(Medical Xpress)—Most parents would agree that raising a generous child is an admirable goal—but how, exactly, is that accomplished? New results from the University of Notre Dame's Science of Generosity initiative, which ...
Feb 27, 2013
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HIV & AIDS
Study finds incentive price for reducing HIV risk in Mexico
Studies have found that conditional cash transfer programs, in which governments pay citizens if they consistently practice societally beneficial behaviors, have improved pediatric health care and education in Mexico, increased ...
Feb 4, 2013
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Health
Wash. vows to try to keep weed in state—but how?
So far, no one is suggesting checkpoints or fences to keep Washington state's legal pot within its borders.
Jan 29, 2013
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Health
Legislated to health?
Obesity rates in North America are a growing concern for legislators. Expanded waistlines mean rising health-care costs for maladies such as diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. One University of Alberta researcher says ...
Aug 30, 2012
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Health
Social entrepreneurship for sexual health
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Joseph Tucker from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA and colleagues lay out a social entrepreneurship for sexual health (SESH) approach that focuses on decentralized ...
Jul 17, 2012
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Health
Widespread exposure to BPA substitute is occurring from cash register receipts, other paper
People are being exposed to higher levels of the substitute for BPA in cash register thermal paper receipts and many of the other products that engendered concerns about the health effects of bisphenol A, according to a new ...
Jul 11, 2012
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Medications
Bristol-Myers to buy diabetes drug maker for $5B
(AP) — Drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. says it agreed to buy diabetes drug maker Amylin Pharmaceuticals for about $5 billion in cash.
Jul 1, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Study answers Medicare concerns about paying for CT colonography
A new study of 1,400 Medicare-aged patients reinforces CT colonography as a screening tool for colon cancer, adding to the continued debate over Medicare coverage of the procedure.
Jul 1, 2012
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Other
Indonesian district offers cash for vasectomies
A district in Indonesia is handing out cash to civil servants who volunteer for vasectomies -- but the initiative has upset women who fear their sterilised husbands will be more likely to have affairs.
Apr 4, 2012
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