While financial incentives for individual physicians resulted in some better outcomes for high blood pressure patients, incentives at the practice level or combined individual- and practice-level ...

Incentive and retention frameworks quietly shape behavior and appetite for risk-taking in the financial markets. EWM Global, ...

Many patients prescribed statins to lower cholesterol levels stop taking them within a few months. However, a new study led by researchers at the Philadelphia-based Perelman School of Medicine at the ...

Far more people with obesity living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood lost weight when a financial incentive was added to the mix, according to a randomized clinical trial. After 6 ...

“Incentives are designed to influence behavior over time, but too often their impact is diluted by operational limitations. A ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Because individuals with obesity are more likely than individuals with normal weight to face social stigma, ...

Incentivizing patients to follow a lifestyle modification program helps them improve across a range of diabetes-related health measures, a new meta-analysis has found. Investigators performed what ...

Giving people a monetary incentive to achieve weight loss goals doubles the pounds they lose, according to a new study. Researchers tracked the weight loss of 668 morbidly obese adults in New York ...

At the Booyoung Group’s New Year’s ceremony held at the Booyoung Taepyeong Building in Jung-gu, Seoul, on the 5th, cries of newborns erupted here and there. They were newborns brought in the arms of ...

*Note: this paper is being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) and is being published in JAMA. Please credit both the congress and the journal in your stories.* A new study presented ...