Though the 10,000 steps a day “rule” is actually a marketing gimmick, there is some merit to getting a few thousand paces under your belt (or should that be soles?) daily. Some research suggests that ...

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The justices, split along ideological lines, found that Louisiana’s voting map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

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The Philadelphia Phillies have been looking for their center fielder of the future. Justin Crawford may have arrived just in time. The Phillies have known Crawford is coming. The son of the former ...

To track progress toward the World Bank Group’s vision of a world free of poverty on a livable planet, it is necessary to regularly measure poverty through the collection and analysis of timely and ...

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Objective To examine whether a multicomponent commercial fitness app with very small (‘micro’) financial incentives (FI) increased population-level device-assessed physical activity (PA) over 2 years.