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Can you buy changes in health behaviors?
By Stuart Rennie And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear One for every year he's away she said Such a crumbling beauty, Ach there's nothing wrong with her That a hundred dollars won't fix Those are lyrics from Tom Waits' song '9th and Hennepin.' They slipped involuntarily... (read the rest)
Corn, oil and hunger
A trio of recent dots from the news stream that practically yell out to be connected: + The UN reported this week that rising food prices are pushing 100 million people even deeper into hunger. In response, Gordon Brown called hunger a "moral challenge." + Prices are starting to get... (read the rest)
Talking about the consequences of chronic disease
The Milken Institute released a report this week totaling the cost of preventable chronic disease in the US. The report's tally for 2003 was $1.3 trillion.* And when you float a number like that, people tend to notice. "Healthy living could save U.S. $1 trillion, study finds" is how the... (read the rest)
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