Policy Wise

A new research suggests that people who have drunk moderate amounts of alcohol are more likely to recover from brain trauma.
The researchers nevertheless found clear evidence that in some cases, a certain amount of alcohol helps the brain recover from blunt trauma injury. And those findings, they said, could lead doctors to develop head injury [...]

…in the battle against diabetes. A wonderful example of how combining incentives with information dissemination and counseling can lead to an effective public health policy.
For the past 10 years, the city of Asheville has given free diabetes medicines and supplies to municipal workers who have the disease if they agree to monthly counseling from [...]

A recent study seems to indicate that majority of Americans support public policies and government-induced incentives that can potentially reduce adult obesity.
A large majority of Americans say they support changes in public policy to stem the rising tide of obesity among adults, a new survey shows.
“There is a lot of support for employer and [...]

Smaller American Universities are adopting novel ways to attract the best students-offering Chess scholarships. This comes from the belief that good chess players will do better academically. While the system of entrance examinations which we follow in India can be termed more ‘fair’, it leaves very little scope for lesser known schools to attract the [...]

Baby boomers are spending a higher amount caring for their elderly parents. As the average life expectancy increase, this cost will only go up.
Ms. Rodriguez is among the legion of adult children — more than 15 million, according to various calculations — who take care of their aging parents, a responsibility that often includes [...]

Couple of months back, BongoP’o’ndit had brought to our attention, the New York’s Board of Health’s decision to ban use of Trans fats in restaurants. Much discussion ensued and we were supposed to write a post on it. As it usually happens, laziness intervened and we never got around to writing it.
Anyway, now the [...]

The recent decision by New York City’s Board of Health to ban the usage of trans-fat in all restaurants (and catering units) in the city bothers me. Ever since I heard about the initial proposal few months ago, I have not been able to decide whether it is a good or bad idea.
On one hand, [...]