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...calculate the benefits,” Christakis said. “If our findings are correct, a 20-pound weight loss in you might also induce weight loss...in your social network. There may be an additional 180-pound loss, so our cost effectiveness has gone up by a factor of ten. So this would mean we’d have to rethink how we calculate cost-effectiveness...
...study controlled for characteristics often linked to child maltreatment - such as substance abuse, socioeconomic status and age of the children -making it evident that deployment was the determining factor...
...high concentrations, perchloroethylene (PCE) - the dry-cleaning chemical used as the primary solvent in more than 90% of the estimated 50,000 dry cleaning stores in the U.S. - can harm the central nervous system. According to the Centers for Disease Control, studies show that PCE may be a factor in the increased risk for cervical cancer among female dry-cleaning workers. Tom Kelly, director of the indoor environments division of EPA, confirmed that PCE may be dangerous, particularly in residential buildings, and can be a factor in both cancer and non-cancer illness. Nora Nealis, executive director of the National...
...sightseeing, is generating almost as much praise and criticism as the goodwill ambassador herself. Are volunteer vacations--which have become so mainstream that CheapTickets recently started letting online customers book volunteer activities along with their vacations--merely overpriced guilt trips with an impact as fleeting as the feel-good factor? Or do they offer individuals a real chance to change the world, one summer jaunt at a time...
...obesity effect on college enrollment was also slightly stronger for blacks and Hispanics than it was for whites but the results were rooted less in race than in psychosocial adjustment. "Race is a predictor of college enrollment, obesity and depression, but it doesn't seem to be a strong factor in how obesity predicts socio-emotional adjustment and how that predicts college enrollment," says Crosnoe. "It's really just a more general phenomenon across these racial groups...