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Marketing a 'spoonful of sugar'

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 3 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Your kids won't wear their seatbelts, take their vitamins or brush their teeth? A new study by Tel Aviv University offers a simple formula that will get better compliance in the kid department -- and has implications for ...


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New Algorithm Ranks Sports Teams like Google's PageRank

Technology / Computer Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sports fans may be interested in a new system that ranks NFL and college football teams in a simple, straightforward way, similar to how Google PageRank ranks webpages. The new sports algorithm, ...


Marriage is good for the health: global study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 8 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Despite the barbs of comedians and the spectacular bust-ups documented in the gossip magazines, marriage really is good for you, international research has found.


Studies quantify radiation doses, cancer risks from CT scans

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Doses of radiation from commonly performed computed tomography (CT) scans vary widely, appear higher than generally believed and may contribute to an estimated tens of thousands of future cancer cases, according to two reports ...


Who gets expensive cancer drugs? A tale of 2 nations

Medicine & Health / Other

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The well-worn notion that patients in the United States have unfettered access to the most expensive cancer drugs while the United Kingdom's nationalized health care system regularly denies access to some high-cost treatments ...


Less TV time may help overweight adults burn more calories, researcher says

Medicine & Health / Health

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Adults may stave off weight gain by simply spending less time watching television, according to a new study. Overweight adults who cut television time in half burned more calories as a result. ...


Teen marijuana use tilts up, while some drugs decline in use

Medicine & Health / Health

created 21 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marijuana use among American adolescents has increased gradually over the past two years (three years among 12th-graders) following years of declining use, according to the latest Monitoring the Future study, ...


Smoking continues gradual decline among U.S. teens, smokeless tobacco threatens a comeback

Medicine & Health / Health

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Teen smoking reached its recent peak levels around 1996 and 1997, followed by a sharp decline for about six years and a continued more gradual decline ever since, according to the latest Monitoring the Future ...


Study shows health care spending spurs economic growth

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

As the national discussion of health care focuses on costs, a new study from North Carolina State University shows that it might be more accurate to think of health care spending as an investment that can spur economic growth. ...


Veiling in style: How does a stigmatized practice become fashionable?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Why are an increasing number of Turkish women wearing veils in a secular country where the practice is banned in public buildings? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says one factor is fashion.



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