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...Children under the age of seven or eight really do not have the ability to understand the persuasive intent of advertising and marketing," says Dr. Thomas Robinson, an associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford University and lead author of the study, "so the justification for marketing, which is to inform a consumer, doesn't really hold for them, because they can't understand that advertising is biased...
...black patients experiencing heart attacks were far less-likely to receive a key blood clot-busting procedure called thrombolysis has been known for some time, but the new study determined that there exist distinct “pro-white, anti-black” race biases, according to study co-author Alexander R. Green, a doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School...
...Sewall said that the claims made by the article’s author, Tom E. Hayden, are completely unfounded...
Researchers believe that the study’s results help explain a dramatic increase in obesity within the past 30 years, according to study co-author James H. Fowler...
According to co-author and Harvard Professor of Medical Sociology Nicholas A. Christakis, the data suggest a need to revise upwards efficacy estimates of public health interventions to account for reverberating effects through social networks...