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...Octomom case proved that private regulation alone has never been sufficient," says Debora Spar, president of Barnard College and author of The Baby Business, a book about the fertility industry. Both Spar and Schneider say the CDC should maintain a mandatory national registry...
...Botox patients scored much lower on measures of depression, anxiety and irritability," explains Michael Lewis, a psychology professor at the University of Cardiff and lead author of the study. "Crucially, there was no significant difference in how much their treatment made them feel attractive from those who had other treatments, suggesting that [the mood boost] wasn't just down to a boost in self-confidence." (See pictures of facial yoga...
...that a company gives you so that you'll sign a release promising not to do things like sue or trash-talk the firm in the press. "It's not love, it's not a gift - it's a business transaction," says Alan Sklover, an employment attorney and the author of Fired, Downsized, or Laid Off: What Your Employer Doesn't Want You to Know About How to Fight Back. If you agree to go beyond basic stipulations - perhaps you'd be willing to train the people who are going to take over your responsibilities - you could get a better...
...Some of that success can be attributed to improvements in freezing techniques, says Dr. Hannu Martikainen, the study's lead author and the chief physician at the University of Oulu Division of Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology. "Now we have more and more experience, and we are doing more and more frozen cycles," he says. He points out the importance of not only transferring but also preserving each embryo on its own, which makes it possible to use frozen embryos one at a time rather than in bigger batches. "[If you transfer] three embryos in each cycle, you very soon...
What's driving the denomination effect? First off, some consumers see large bills as more sacrosanct than a bunch of chump change. "People tend to overvalue bigger bills," says Joydeep Srivastava, a marketing professor at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and a co-author of the study. "There's a psychological cost associated with spending a $100 bill that's not there with spending smaller bills." We tend to isolate the cash in our minds. Each $20 is a separate, less valuable entity than that single $100 bill. So it's easier to part...