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...just because none has been perfected yet. People would have to step forward to receive a vaccine that would not make them immune to malaria; they would instead become part of a growing web of people who would eventually push the parasite out of circulation. That complicates the risk-benefit calculus. Every vaccine, after all, can have side effects - in some cases, the possibility of contracting the disease itself. Typically, people are willing to accept that danger because they want the immunity. The AnAPN1 vaccine has been tested in human blood only in the lab, and while it's effective...
Will We Tune Out? So what is the most sensible way for us to calibrate the risks posed by H1N1? This summer, public-health authorities have worried almost as much about people's risk-benefit equation as they have about the virus. Dr. Karen Remley, health commissioner for Virginia, has noticed that most people seem to fall into one of two categories when it comes to H1N1. "There's a group of people who think it's all gone and over," she says. "There's a group who say, 'Armageddon is going to happen!' The trick is getting people...
...case," Olson told TIME. "It would be great if [the new ballot initiative] would be successful, but ... a loss would be very unfortunate - two successive popular vote losses in the nation's largest and one of the most liberal states. I'm not quite sure I follow the risk-benefit analysis." That's exactly what gay-rights activists worried about this suit have been thinking...
...much-changed financial landscape, many academics said there was no need to overhaul economic thinking.“I don’t think there’s any new particles being discovered,” Merton says, comparing the fundamentals of finance—market efficiency and risk-benefit analysis—to the building blocks of physical matter.While several major financial institutions have disappeared, leaving experts to sift through the wreckage, many Harvard professors said that the backlash on quantitative models was largely unwarranted. Furthermore, they say quantitative models have become so prevalent in recent years?...
...between 1993 and 1998, the estrogen and progestin preparations were not available in the lower doses that are used today, and that most women had been taking the hormones for longer than the one to two years that current guidelines recommend. (Researchers are planning to study the long-term risk-benefit profile of lower dose formulations and shorter exposure periods...