Results from recent studies show a growing number of high school students reportedly receive one or more lottery tickets or scratch cards as gifts. This, coupled with the increasing concern about adolescent problem gambling, ...
Dec 12, 2012
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Con artists, fraudsters and their hapless victims are a staple of the news cycle and hardly a week seems to pass without a story about an e-mail lottery scam or a telephone fraud. Many reading these stories perhaps just raise ...
Sep 19, 2018
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A weighted "lottery" designed to increase access to the antiviral drug remdesivir during the May-July 2020 COVID-19 surge for those most affected by the coronavirus, including members of the Black, Latinx and indigenous communities, ...
May 16, 2021
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Money, doughnuts and beer. As high-tech and effective as our COVID vaccines are, getting enough people to take them to achieve herd immunity may come down to some very Homer Simpson-esque tools of persuasion.
Aug 16, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Although some U.S. states put up big amounts of cash to influence residents to get their COVID-19 vaccinations, it didn't appear to make much any difference in immunization rates.
Jan 7, 2022
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(HealthDay)—A shot at winning $1 million did nothing to budge the number of people who got the COVID-19 jab.
Oct 15, 2021
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Sometimes referred to as the "crack cocaine of gambling," electronic gaming machines (EGMs) such as slot machines allow bets to be placed as quickly as once every 2.5 seconds, delivering a rapid and immersive gambling experience. ...
Sep 25, 2023
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(AP)—The brother of a Chicago man poisoned with cyanide shortly after winning the lottery said Monday he is the family member who asked authorities to reconsider the initial finding that his sibling had died of natural ...
Feb 12, 2013
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Fortune struck one man in the bakery aisle at the supermarket. Two others were working the night shift at a Subway sandwich shop. Yet another was plucked from a list of 15,000 hopefuls.
Jan 22, 2021
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The use of cash lotteries to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates were not effective, according to a new study from UO economist Ben Hansen and researchers from Bentley University, the University of Colorado Denver and San Diego ...
Nov 23, 2021
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