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Managed Care: The Spreading Medicaid Innovation
Christine Vestal (Stateline)
Wednesday, 01 June 2011
Washington, DC, USA. After two decades of experimenting with managed care in Medicaid, a growing number of states are expanding its use.

Why do so many states want to put more Medicaid patients into managed care programs? What has been the states' experience with managed care so far? Here's a primer on how Medicaid managed care works and why so many states are turning to it now even as critics say they should be cautious.


Study Confirms Higher Medicare Spending Yields Better Health
TS-Si News Service
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Fairfax, VA, USA. Contrary to previous reports, higher spending levels on medical services means better overall health for Medicare participants, a conclusion drawn from analyzing data from more than 17,000 Medicare beneficiaries.

Policymakers consider limiting Medicare payments in high-cost areas to curb perceived cost overruns because previous reports suggested that Medicare spending varies greatly by geographic area, but with little to show for it.

Rappin' The Yo Yo Ho
TS-Si News Service
Friday, 27 May 2011
Waco, TX, USA. Male rappers see the "independent woman" as an educated, bill-paying person who will care for an average guy without making demands, while female rappers stress their sexual prowess and keep mum about their domestic skills, according to a Baylor University researcher's study.

But despite their very different takes on independent women, both men and women artists displayed a definite lack of the R-E-S-P-E-C-T that Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin craved in her 1967 mega-hit song.

Thirty Percent of Women Would Trade Year of Life for Perfect Body
TS-Si News Service
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Bristol, United Kingdom. Thirty percent of women would trade at least one year of their life to achieve their ideal body weight and shape.

Findings from a survey of university women in the United Kingdom highlight that body image issues are not limited to adolescent girls, but affect all women. Moreover, the majority of women surveyed said that more needs to be done to promote positive body image on their university campuses.

How Males and Females Differ on Emotions and Sexual Attractiveness
TS-Si News Service
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Vancouver, BC, Canada. Females rate happy guys as significantly less sexually attractive than swaggering or brooding males, according to a new study that helps to explain the enduring allure of the bad boy types and other iconic gender types.

The study finds dramatic gender differences in how men and women rank the sexual attractiveness of non-verbal expressions of commonly displayed emotions, including happiness, pride, and shame.

TS-Si News Service
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Coral Gables, FL, USA. Modern-day game theory techniques have been used to reexamine two legendary military bluffs and explain why they worked, with findings of interest to everyday situations that have the potential for interpersonal conflict.

The study shows that bluffing works because an opponent comes to believe you are strong, but can't tell whether your strength or true or only an act.

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Tuesday, 24 May 2011
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Sunday, 22 May 2011
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Thursday, 19 May 2011
Lausanne, Switzerland. Scientists used robots to simulate genetic evolution over hundreds of generations, providong quantitative proof of kin selection. One of the most enduring puzzles in biology has been why most social animals, including humans, ...
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Tampa, FL, USA. Psychologists have tested the assumption that delaying sex reduces sexual risk-taking and bad consequences, finding that in the end it doesn’t really matter whether you delay sex or not. Sex education has one common message whether...
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Monday, 16 May 2011
Tucson, AZ, USA and Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Investigators testing economic models with fMRI scans have developed new insights into why people choose cooperation over selfish behavior. A research team targeted regions of the brain associated with ...
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Sunday, 15 May 2011
West Lafayette, IN, USA. Ostracism or exclusion may not leave external scars, but it can cause pain that often is deeper and lasts longer than a physical injury. According to a study from Purdue University, when a person is ostracized, the brain's d...
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Saturday, 14 May 2011
Los Angeles, CA, USA. When someone is acts suspiciously at a subway station, airport, or another public space, how can law enforcement officers or members of the public determine whether someone is up to no good? R. Edward Geiselman, a UCLA psycholo...
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Saturday, 14 May 2011
Houston, TX, USA. Most people bypass the pursuit of variety and marry only those whose political views align with their own, according to new research published in the Journal of Politics. A study by political scientists found that political attitud...
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Thursday, 12 May 2011
Lund, Sweden. The pursuit of gender studies developed a bias towards research focused on gender at the expense of other power relationships, marginalizing and reducing the visibility of other power structures. This claim comes from doctoral research...
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Gambier, OH, USA. Are clothing manufacturers helping to turn young girls into sex objects? Up to 30 percent of young girls' clothing available online in the US is sexy or sexualizing, according to a study. This has serious implications for how girls...
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Monday, 09 May 2011
Manhattan, KS, USA. Many Native American and native Alaskan groups (the native nations) deal with alternative genders and homosexuality, with emerging practices that approach many of those associated with western culture. Lisa Tatonetti notes there ...
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Sunday, 08 May 2011
Waco, TX, USA. People living in countries with governments that have a greater number of social services report being more satisfied with life, according to a study by a Baylor University researcher. Dr. Patrick Flavin, assistant professor of politi...
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Thursday, 05 May 2011
Stockholm, Sweden. The brain has built-in mechanisms that trigger an automatic reaction to someone who refuses to share. The reaction derives from the amygdala, an older part of the brain. The subjects' sense of justice was challenged in a two-playe...
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Wednesday, 04 May 2011
Leipzig, Germany. The ability to discriminate spontaneous from planned (rehearsed) behavior has been traced to the amygdala in the brain and a network of areas known to be involved in the mental simulation of behavior. This is important when inferri...

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