During the pandemic, doctors and patients have confronted the reality that few decisions in medicine are cut and dried. Instead, we've been forced to consider the concept of relative risk. Examples ...

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Vol. 31, No. 3 (December 2005), pp. 243-262 (20 pages) The relative risk aversion measure that represents the risk preferences of a decision maker depends on the ...

WASHINGTON — By now we've all heard that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95%, Moderna of 94%, and Johnson & Johnson about 66%; what you may not have known is that rate's technical ...

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If rd is the relative risk of a disorder in the entire population, and $r_{d,i}$ is the relative risk of the disorder in i = 1,.. .m strata, then one may show readily ...

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 ...

No one wants to hear that they have a mutation in their DNA associated with the development of cancer. But it may be even more difficult to accept that, in many cases, clinicians can't say whether or ...