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Probiotics are believed to improve health by maintaining a normal balance of microorganisms in the human intestines. Evidence shows that they can reduce the risk of developing diarrhea, which is a common side effect of taking antibiotics.

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If consumer-directed health plans grow to account for half of all employer-sponsored insurance in the United States, health costs could drop by $57 billion annually—about 4 percent of all health care spending among the nonelderly.

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States with low nonfatal injury rates and high fatality rates tend to be in the South, have lower worker compensation benefits, be less unionized, and pay lower wages—while states with high nonfatal injury rates and lower fatality rates tend to be in the West, pay higher benefits and wages, be more strongly unionized, and carry out more workplace inspections.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/05/03.html 2012-05-03T07:30:00Z 2012-05-03T07:30:00Z

The U.S. Department of Defense will receive more detailed, transparent and credible assessments of its counterinsurgency campaigns by replacing its top-down approach with a bottom-up method driven by contextual, narrative reporting provided by commanders on the ground.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/04/30/index2.html 2012-04-30T12:14:00Z 2012-04-30T12:14:00Z

Veteran U.S. diplomat Charles Ries has been named vice president, international at the RAND Corporation, RAND President and CEO Michael D. Rich announced today.

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James Loy, a retired U.S. Coast Guard admiral and former senior executive of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been elected to the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees, RAND President and CEO Michael D. Rich announced today.

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The efforts of U.S. military information operations and psychological operations in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2010 grew less successful over time, as disenchantment with foreign occupation grew.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/04/26.html 2012-04-26T11:41:00Z 2012-04-26T11:41:00Z

Lt. Gen. Glenn A. Kent, a strategist, analyst and teacher whose career spanned World War II, the Cold War and the post-Cold War eras, died April 25.

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The quest for greater transparency in the American civil justice system is the topic of a new book of essays illustrating how a balanced approach to increasing transparency can improve the civil justice system, raise public confidence and protect litigants' privacy.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/04/17.html 2012-04-17T11:28:00Z 2012-04-17T11:28:00Z

A new book by the late French scholar Thérèse Delpech provides a critical review and update of nuclear deterrence theory, focusing a critical eye on nuclear issues during the Cold War, examining the lessons of past nuclear crises, and outlining ways in which these lessons apply to major nuclear powers and nuclear pretenders today.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/04/11.html 2012-04-11T09:00:00Z 2012-04-11T09:00:00Z

Companies could lower the high cost of large-scale electronic discovery in lawsuits by using a computer application known as predictive coding to reduce the number of documents requiring human review.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/03/20.html 2012-03-20T13:00:00Z 2012-03-20T13:00:00Z

Use of anesthesia providers to monitor sedation during screening colonoscopies and other outpatient gastroenterology procedures more than doubled from 2003 to 2009 in the United States, with most of the increase among low-risk patients who may not need this service.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/03/15.html 2012-03-15T13:34:00Z 2012-03-15T13:34:00Z

Researchers from the RAND Corporation and other institutions have begun pilot-testing a web-based tool designed to help parents and adult caregivers determine whether to seek urgent medical attention for a sick child with flu-like symptoms.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/03/14.html 2012-03-14T07:58:00Z 2012-03-14T07:58:00Z

The RAND Corporation, Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) and private investors have launched a company named Praedicat, Inc., that will provide consulting services and software to the property and casualty insurance industries, officials announced today.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/03/05.html 2012-03-05T16:31:00Z 2012-03-05T16:31:00Z

As health care reform expands the use of "report cards" to grade health care providers, greater attention to reporting methods may be needed to assure the quality of such efforts.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/03/02.html 2012-03-02T19:15:00Z 2012-03-02T19:15:00Z

James Q. Wilson, a longtime board member of the RAND Corporation and its Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS) who was known, among other things, for his analyses of the nature of bureaucracy, died today in Boston from complications relating to leukemia.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/02/20.html 2012-02-20T08:35:00Z 2012-02-20T08:35:00Z

The Development Portfolio Management Group, a group providing independent review and counsel to international aid projects in developing countries, has joined the RAND Corporation. Joining nonprofit RAND will allow the group to assist a wider array of projects, including those funded by governments of developing countries, bi-lateral donors, regional development banks, and foundations.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/02/16/index1.html 2012-02-16T08:00:00Z 2012-02-16T08:00:00Z

While al Qaeda's capacity for large-scale attacks has been drastically reduced and the organization seriously weakened, the United States can expect to continue its battle with the terrorist group for many years to come.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/02/16.html 2012-02-15T21:01:00Z 2012-02-15T21:01:00Z

Eliminating a key part of health care reform that requires all Americans to have health insurance would sharply lower the number of people gaining coverage, but would not dramatically increase the cost of buying policies through new insurance exchanges.

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Rules that allow some small employers to avoid regulation under the federal Affordable Care Act are unlikely to have a major impact on the future cost of health insurance unless those rules are relaxed to allow more businesses to opt out.