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...liability for the money that it has received from the banks but is not actually entitled to yet. That liability will lower the balance of the FDIC's fund by the same amount that it is boosted by the prepayment. That means, at least on the books, the net effect of the prepayment for the FDIC fund will be nada. So even with the $45 billion coming to it, the FDIC will look broke, and probably stay that way until sometime in late 2012. And that raises the question as to how much a boost in confidence the prepayment plan...
...study—the first to analyze the effect of obesity on overall health for women who lived through 70—also found that obesity early in adulthood typically led to moderately worse health far later in life...
Many people know the term “placebo effect,” but they probably don’t know how much placebos play a role in their lives. In light of our looming health-care crisis, it is time for government and industry alike to embrace and harness the peculiarities of this phenomenon...
...Latin for “I shall please,” which then developed into a derogatory term for a medication aimed at pleasing the patient more than healing him. Today, it refers to a simple sugar pill used in clinical trials as a control to judge the effectiveness of new drugs. Ironically, the placebo today tends to equal or even surpass modern pharmaceuticals in effectiveness: the “placebo effect.” Placebos are relevant in our lives in not just medicine, however—many elevator “door close” and street crossing...
Harnessing the placebo effect does not seem a particularly easy, or even feasible, task: beating the best of 200 years of scientific discovery, invention, and insight with just inert sugar. But the evidence remains embarrassingly clear that the placebo effect is real—and more important than we may care to admit. A recent article in Wired magazine explained the trend: “From 2001 to 2006, the percentage of new products cut from development after Phase II clinical trials, when drugs are first tested against placebo, rose by 20 percent.” And 50 percent...