Risk in Perspective

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Our newsletter, Risk in Perspective, periodically communicates the results of our research in a short and accessible form that emphasizes its policy relevance. Explore past issues below by following the links to the complete issues. Interested in receiving Risk in Perspective?

Risk in Perspective:  Premature Deaths, Statistical Lives, and the Economic Value of Mortality Risk

Risk in Perspective:  An Overview of “Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment”

Risk in Perspective:  Ozone and Mortality – An Update

Risk in Perspective:  Valuing “Lives Saved” vs. “Life-Years Saved”

Risk in Perspective:  Mortality Risks from Ozone Exposure

Risk in Perspective:  Air Pollution Risks in China

Risk in Perspective:  Matters of the Heart and Mind: Risk-Risk Tradeoffs

Risk in Perspective:  Regulation of Hormetic Substances

Risk in Perspective:  Weight of the Evidence Evaluation of Low-Dose Reproductive and Developmental Effect of Bisphenol A

Risk in Perspective:  Is There a Cancer Premium?

Risk in Perspective:  The Precautionary Principle in Practice: Comparing US EPA and WHO Pesticide Risk Assessments

Risk in Perspective:  The Cost of Improving Health by Reducing Emissions From Public Transit Buses

Risk in Perspective:  A Web-based Registry of Cost-Utility Analysis

Risk in Perspective:  Risk Communications: A Neglected Tool in Protecting Public Health

Risk in Perspective:  Valuing Health: Quality-Adjusted Life Years or Willingness to Pay?

Risk in Perspective:  New Technology Provides Additional Option for Women with Equivocal Pap Smear Results

Risk in Perspective:  Evaluating the Risk to Workers and the Public from Styrene Exposure

Risk in Perspective:  Evaluating the Risk of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in the United States

Risk in Perspective:  The Harvard Center for Risk Analysis: Past, Present, and Future

Risk in Perspective:  Preventing Cervical Cancer in Developing Nations

Risk in Perspective:  Health Benefits of Emissions Reductions from Older Power Plants

Risk in Perspective:  The Mexico Project

Risk in Perspective:  Compensating Government Workers Exposed to Radiation

Risk in Perspective:  Cellular Phones and Driving: Weighing the Risks and Benefits

Risk in Perspective:  Are Pharmaceuticals Cost-Effective? Lessons for the Medicare Drug Benefit Debate

Risk in Perspective:  Kids at Risk

Risk in Perspective:  Valuing Life-Saving: Is Contingent Valuation Useful?

Risk in Perspective:  Preventing Cervical and Anal Cancer in HIV-Positive Women and Men: Using Disease-Specific Models to Develop Clinical Guidelines

Risk in Perspective:  Fueling Heavy Duty Trucks: Diesel or Natural Gas

Risk in Perspective:  Health Insight: A Consumer’s Guide to Taking Charge of Health Information

Risk in Perspective:  Valuing the Health Effects of Air Pollution

Risk in Perspective:  The Cost Effectiveness of New Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease

Risk in Perspective:  The Precautionary Principle: Refine It or Replace It?

Risk in Perspective:  Toxic Pollution from Power Plants: Large Emissions, Little Risk

Risk in Perspective:  An Investor’s Look at Life-Saving Opportunities

Risk in Perspective:  The Agricultural Health Study: Strengths and Limitations

Risk in Perspective:  Gains in Life Expectancy from Medical Interventions

Risk in Perspective:  Risk-Based Environmental Advocacy

Risk in Perspective:  Patients’ Willingness to Pay for Autologous Blood Donation

Risk in Perspective:  Cancer Prevention for Individuals with Inherited Mutations

Risk in Perspective:  Ranking Risks in the Home

Risk in Perspective:  Breast Cancer Risk Factors: What Do We Know and How Well Do We Know It?

Risk in Perspective:  Whose Blood is Safer?

Risk in Perspective:  The Greening of Industry

Risk in Perspective:  Evaluating Risk Reduction Programs

Risk in Perspective:  The Sperm-Count Debate

Risk in Perspective:  Measuring Quality-Adjusted Survival for Cancer Therapies

Risk in Perspective:  Reducing Risk by Conserving Fuel and Recovering Wasted Heat

Risk in Perspective:  Risk Reform: Have You Read the Levin-Thompson Bill?

Risk in Perspective:  Airbags: Benefits and Risks

Risk in Perspective:  Coronary Heart Disease

Risk in Perspective:  Testicular Cancer: What’s Going On?

Risk in Perspective:  Forget Chemical Use, Let’s Report Risk!

Risk in Perspective:  The Importance of Modeling in the Economic Evaluation of Medical Technologies

Risk in Perspective:  Regulatory Reform: Moving Forward in the States

Risk in Perspective:  OSHA’s Program for Updating the Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs): Can Risk Assessment Help “Move the Ball Forward?”

Risk in Perspective:  Panel Issues Standards for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Risk in Perspective:  Breast Cancer: What are the Perceived Risk Factors?

Risk in Perspective:  Hazards in the News: Who Believes What?

Risk in Perspective:  Are Chemicals in the Environment Disrupting Hormonal Control of Growth and Development?

Risk in Perspective:  EMFs and Childhood Cancer: Are You Convinced?

Risk in Perspective:  Violence Against Women in Intimate Relationships

Risk in Perspective:  The FDA’s Oversight of Pharmacoeconomic Claims

Risk in Perspective:  Managing Risk Tradeoffs

Risk in Perspective:  Global Climate Change: Are We Over-Driving Our Headlights?

Risk in Perspective:  Cellular Telephones and Brain Cancer

Risk in Perspective:  The Human and Economic Costs of AIDS Therapies

Risk in Perspective:  Workers, EMFs, and Cancer

Risk in Perspective:  How Should Pesticides Be Regulated?

Risk in Perspective:  Complete Risk Characterization

Risk in Perspective:  EMF and Human Health – an Open Question

Risk in Perspective:  Does the Public Support Risk Analysis?

Risk in Perspective:  Lead Paint and Kids: Which Houses Should be Abated?

Risk in Perspective:  Risk Analysis and the EPA Cabinet-Elevation Bill

Risk in Perspective:  The Role of Significant Risk in OSHA Reform

Risk in Perspective:  Optimal Use of Toxic Chemicals

Risk in Perspective:  The Legacy of One in a Million