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? Join our mailing list.

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

Prior Issues

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