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Mexican health care reform has been convoluted and ineffective
Aug 18, 2009 |
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A Policy Forum published in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine argues that twenty-five years of health care reforms in Mexico have increased insurance coverage but have not resulted in greater efficiency and ha ...
New research links International Monetary Fund loans with higher death rates from tuberculosis
Jul 22, 2008 |
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans were associated with a 16.6% rise in death rates from tuberculosis (TB) in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern European countries between 1992 and 2002, finds a study in ...
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Monetary gain and high-risk tactics stimulate activity in the brain
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Monetary gain stimulates activity in the brain. Even the mere possibility of receiving a reward is known to activate an area of the brain called the striatum. A team of Japanese researchers report in the January 2010 issue ...
Response to gains or losses depends on age
Apr 30, 2007 |
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A U.S. study finds older adults have an asymmetric neural response to monetary gains and losses compared to the responses by adults aged 19-27 years.
Portuguese award goes to Helen Keller nonprofit
Sep 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Helen Keller International nonprofit organization has won a $1.4 million prize from a Portuguese foundation for its work in preventing blindness in the developing world, the foundation said Friday.
Hitachi Files Plasma TV Patent Suit Versus LG
Apr 25, 2007 |
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On Monday, a Hitachi subsidary filed a patent infringement suit against LG Electronics and one of its subsidiaries for the improper use of Hitachi's plasma display panel technologies.
Interest rate shock could kick-start stock exchange
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Norges Bank surprised most experts by cutting the interest rate by as much as 1.75 percentage points during the final interest rate meeting in 2008. Surprise interest rate changes like this, so-called interest rate shocks, ...
Hansen and Langlands win Nemmers prizes
Mar 15, 2006 |
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Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Langlands are the recipients of the 2006 Nemmers Prizes in economics and mathematics, Northwestern University announced.
NASA announces aeronautics competition
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 10, 2006 |
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NASA has announced a new aeronautics competition for U.S. high school and college students looking at the future of flight.
Study: Men find retribution more rewarding
Jan 19, 2006 |
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A University College London brain imaging study suggests men gain greater satisfaction than women when witnessing retribution.
Call center optimization
Aug 26, 2009 |
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A research report in the current issue of the International Journal of Engineering Systems Modeling and Simulation suggests that help desks can be optimized by adding very few extra staff.
People with blindness from cataract are poorer than those with normal sight
Dec 16, 2008 |
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A new study conducted in three developing countries—Kenya, the Philippines, and Bangladesh—finds that people with cataract-induced visual impairment are more likely to live in poverty than those with normal sight. The study ...
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