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Death Rates in Newborns Remain Shockingly High in Africa and India
August 30, 2011 — Neonatal mortality -- deaths in newborns, aged 3 weeks and under -- has declined in all regions of the world over the past two decades but in 2009, more than half of all neonatal deaths occurred in ... > full story -
Hedge Funds Sold Stocks Quickly While Mutual Fund Investors Suffered Larger Losses During Crisis
August 25, 2011 — A new study of stock trading during the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 found that hedge funds sold their stocks much more aggressively than mutual funds at the first signs of poor performance. ... > full story -
Government Subsidies to the US Film Industry Promote Youth Smoking, Argue Researchers
August 23, 2011 — Governments in the UK, US and Canada are undermining tobacco prevention campaigns by subsidizing top-grossing US films that contain smoking, a report by public health researchers ... > full storyMore: -
Alternative Health-Care Funding in Canada Will Not Lower Costs, Experts Say
August 22, 2011 — Alternative funding for health care in Canada will not result in lower costs nor contribute to financial sustainability, states a new ... > full story -
Reducing Drug Funding to U.S. Medicare Patients Will Lead Many to Stop Taking Their Medications, Researchers Say
August 16, 2011 — The lack of financial assistance to cover the cost of drugs to Medicare beneficiaries (the U.S. government's health insurance program for people aged 65 or over, which currently covers 50 million ... > full story -
Cocaine Addicts Prefer Money in Hand to Snowy Future
August 11, 2011 — When a research team asked cocaine addicts to choose, hypothetically, between money now or cocaine of greater value later, "preference was almost exclusively for the money ... > full story -
Paper Money Worldwide Contains Bisphenol A
August 10, 2011 — The cash register receipts that people place near paper money in billfolds and pockets has led to a worldwide contamination of paper money with bisphenol A (BPA) -- a potentially toxic substance. The ... > full story -
Conformity Does Not Necessarily Mean Good Team Work, Study Finds
August 1, 2011 — If you follow the pack are you more likely to co-operate with others in it? Not necessarily, according to new research into social behavior by academics in the UK. The study shows that people who do ... > full story -
Research Reveals Why Hedge Funds Are an Unlikely Large Source of Systemic Risk
July 28, 2011 — A new study finds that hedge funds are moderately leveraged, leverage is counter-cyclical to the leverage of banks and the finance sector, and hedge fund leverage was at its lowest during the ... > full story -
How to Tell Real Whiskey from Fake, Faster
July 25, 2011 — Methods for distinguishing between authentic and counterfeit Scotch whiskey brands have now been devised by ... > full story
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