Medicine Buffalo

Consumers and Health Professionals Find Risk Statistics More Persuasive When Presented in Relative Terms, Study Concludes

BUFFALO, N.Y. Every day, consumers and their healthcare providers make decisions about medications, diagnostic tests and other medical interventions based on risk statistics. According to the findings ...
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Statistics: A Guide to Assessing Societal Risk: Proceedings of a Symposium

Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the OpenBook. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a PDF. Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this ...
Food & Wine

Wine Isn’t Risk-Free — but It May Not Be the Biggest Health Threat on Your Table

Headlines say “no amount of alcohol is safe,” but a closer look at the science — and how risk statistics are reported — tells a more nuanced story. Kathleen writes about the culture and business of ...
Oregonian

Dear Doctor: How do doctors calculate absolute risk reduction numbers when considering use of statins?

DEAR DR. ROACH: A cardiologist recently suggested that I should consider taking a statin because of my “borderline” cholesterol level. So, I took a dive into the details of statin therapy. I learned ...
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Using the Cell-Cycle Risk Score to Predict the Benefit of Androgen-Deprivation Therapy Added to Radiation Therapy in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer

Prospective Study of Homologous Recombination Repair Gene Mutation Prevalence in Patients With Advanced Prostate Cancer From Latin America: Challenges and Future Approaches A model of absolute risk ...
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Wine isn’t risk-free — but it may not be the biggest health threat on your table

Headlines say “no amount of alcohol is safe,” but a closer look at the science — and how risk statistics are reported — tells a more nuanced story. Like many things, wine and alcohol consumption ...