What’s a fair price for a drug? How can we make sure more patients have access to the latest treatments? And how can we speed up the whole process of bringing drugs to cancer patients? These are tough questions, and stakeholders from across the life sciences spectrum have very different approaches to answering them. So […]
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Asking if behavior can be changed on climate crisis
One of the more complex problems facing social psychologists today is whether any intervention can move people to change their behavior about climate change and protecting the environment for the sake of future generations. Now researchers Hanne Melgård Watkins at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Geoffrey Goodwin at the University of Pennsylvania report after […]
Almost half a million worried children are not asking anyone for help
Almost 500,000 British children are worried about their feelings but haven’t asked their parents, siblings or teachers for help, poll reveals The Children’s Society surveyed 2,300 youngsters aged between 10 and 17 Results revealed that 58 per cent had spoken to someone about their fears However, eight per cent of the children admitted they had […]
More Australians are asking each other this important question
It is a difficult question, but four in five Australians have tried to ask it in the past year. Statistics from mental health organisation RU OK? released today revealed 81 per cent of people have found themselves reaching out to someone over the past 12 months to ask, "Are you okay?" Roughly four in five […]