In improving our performance, the stick works as efficiently as the carrot. This is what a new study by a team of academics at the University of Nottingham has concluded. The study led by researchers from the University's School of Psychology has found that punishment can act as a performance enhancer in a similar way to monetary reward. "This work reveals important new information about how the brain functions that could lead to new methods ...
Two international organizations have warned that a massive financial boost is needed to the fight tuberculosis even as drug-resistant strains of the disease take hold. The World Health Organisation and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said that an extra (Dollar) 1.6 billion a year was needed to bolster the battle by lifting the overall total to (Dollar) 4.8 billion. Tuberculosis (TB) infects around 8.7 million people worldwide every year and kills 1.4 million. ... 
Avec le pays qui luttent pour faire face à la récession, l'Irlande espère que les célébrations de la fête de la St Patrick dimanche donnera un coup de pouce bien nécessaire à l'économie chancelante. « C'est probablement un des plus grands jours globales dans le monde entier, lorsque la tribu irlandaise met en valeur toutes choses irlandais, » Tourism Ireland chef Niall Gibbons à l'AFP. "Si vous êtes le Président d'une société et vous offrait une chance où les villes et les dirigeants du monde arrêtent... 
