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...there an optimal risk-benefit ratio for fish? How much omega-3 fatty acids should we get versus mercury...
...this case, though, the danger to the rescuers is so great that at some point, the dwindling chance of finding anyone alive tips the risk-benefit equation in favor of giving up. Yesterday's tragedy may have been that tipping point...
...tell-tale build-up on artery walls that signifies heart disease. Lepor says that CTCA gives off no more radiation than the routinely used diagnostic nuclear stress test, which also detects plaque deposits, but only those that are big enough to block 70% of the artery. "The risk-benefit assessment is in favor of cardiac CT to be used in a judicious fashion," says Lepor, who describes good candidates for the scan as male, over age 40 with at least one risk factor. But there's no need to image patients who don't have any risk factors. "This...
...everyday practice of medicine. "I think this can reassure a lot of patients that CTCA is a good test-and a safe test particularly for older patients," says Einstein. "On the other hand, for younger women, I think it may affect physicians' thinking in terms of the risk-benefit ratio of the test...
...benefit analysis is only useful if the risk is non-zero,” Feldman wrote in an e-mail. “But in the strangelet scenario, “the risk is sufficiently close to zero that risk-benefit analysis is not helpful...