risk assessment

Medical panic often begins with the aesthetics of mathematics. It arrives coated in charts, percentages, thresholds, risk scores, and trend lines, all carrying the aura of objectivity and rigor.

To have a more equal, transparent relationship, physicians have been encouraged to “meet patients where they are,” understand their needs and desires, and share in medical decision-making.

These chemicals resemble fatty acids that we would normally be able to eat.  But since they are fluorinated, they are resistant to water and are long-lasting (we cannot digest them).

The researchers, reporting in Nature Medicine, begin here.

Earlier in June, the FDA agreed to reevaluate the safety of bisphenol A (BPA) in plastics, coating, and other materials that contact food.

In the mediocre but strangely prescient James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, the villain is a media mogul named Elliot Carver who tries to instigate a war between the UK and China to grow his empire.

When you mention infrastructure maintenance what comes to mind; roads, bridges, a political football, as exciting as watching paint dry, job creation?

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Reporting about health risks isn't easy.

To the Editor: While scanning my wife's copy of April 1999 Elle I was dismayed to see poor health advice dispensed because of inappropriate risk comparisons.