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Paying People to Be Healthy

User Financial Incentives (UFIs) have emerged as a powerful tool for health promotion. Strong evidence suggests that large enough incentives paid to individuals, conditional on behaviour they can control, encourages more of the desired behaviour. However, such interventions can have unintended consequences for non-targeted behaviours. Implementation difficulties that result in individuals not u...

Do Antibiotic Beads Need to be Removed?

Background: Polymethylmethacrylate antibiotic impregnated beads can be an effective treatment for chronicosteomyelitis or an adjuvant in the treatment of open fractures. It remains unclear however whether the beads causelong-term adverse events if not removed. The purpose of this study was to determine if removal of antibiotic beads wasrequired in order to avoid long term comp...

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

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"To be, or not to be: that is the question...".

On Wednesday, 31 March 1999, somewhere along the border between Yugoslavia and Macedonia, three soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division were captured by Yugoslav forces, and transported to Belgrade. In the first official statements related to the incident the following morning, neither President Clinton nor Secretary of Defense Cohen referred to the three soldiers as prisoners of war. Instead, ...