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Childhood vaccinations don’t have to be painful, researchers say
Most people associate childhood vaccinations with pain, but new Canadian research shows this doesn’t have to be the case.
In a comprehensive scientific overview published in the August supplement of the journal Clinical Therapeutics, scientists at the University of Toronto, the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Dalhousie University, the University of Western Ontario and Mount Sinai Hospital analysed data from 71 studies involving 8,050 children to determine the best physical, psychological and pharmacologic strategies to minimize vaccine injection pain in children. Read the rest of this entry »
Study: Only a Third of Americans Aware of Exercise Recommendations
Only a third of Americans could identify national recommendations for minimum daily physical activity of 30 minutes, despite more than a decade of publicity campaigns, according to research led by a Duke University professor.
Consistent with other studies, researchers also found that fewer than half of all Americans meet the 1995 recommendations issued by the Centers for Disease Control and American College of Sports Medicine.
Increasing the number of Americans who follow the recommendations could help reduce chronic health problems, said Gary Bennett, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke and lead author of the study. Read the rest of this entry »
Study: States need economic freedom to benefit from natural resources
States with small governments, low taxes and labor market freedom enjoy greater benefits from natural resource development than states with large and intrusive government policies, according to a new study by a Florida State University researcher.
“The size of government and level of regulation are two of the cornerstones of economic freedom,” said Joab Corey, the study’s author and a lecturer in Florida State’s Department of Economics and the Gus A. Stavros Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education. “When it comes to resource development, research shows that states with higher levels of economic freedom enjoy greater benefits from resource development.”
Louisiana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming are singled out as states with high levels of economic freedom that have benefited from resource development. On the other hand, Alaska, Montana and West Virginia have failed to fully benefit from their natural resources, due in part to government policies that limit economic freedom, according to Corey’s peer-reviewed study, “Development in U.S. States, Economic Freedom, and the ‘Resource Curse.’ Read the rest of this entry »