It's no secret that people vary in their pandemic risk perceptions. Source: Emily Parrish, used with permission. I’m sure you’ve noticed that people vary in their assessments of pandemic risks. It’s ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health threats of our time. With microbes increasingly evading the effects of the drugs designed to combat them, we risk losing the ability to treat even ...

The question of whether direct-to-consumer (DTC) personal genomic testing (PGT) will lead to effective preventative medicine instead of a “raiding of the medical commons” 1 or inappropriate changes to ...

(top) Reaction time vs. difference between acute deterioration risk of reference condition (prostate cancer) and various conditions. (bottom). Risk perception and spatial response are clearly related.

Perceiving whether another person is a personal health risk requires quickly assessing their trustworthiness. With limited characteristics available, implicit assumptions often influence risk ...

Suppliers and their buyers have been operating in the same risky environment. Both have had to navigate tariffs, fluctuating interest rates, changing policies, rising costs and various supply chain ...

Over the last five years Army Aviation has driven down Class A mishaps to less than one in 100,000 flight hours. One might ask, where do we go from here? Despite this success, we have to remain ...

Woody Allen defined major surgery as "anything being done to me." When it comes to evaluating medical risk -- or risk of any kind, for that matter -- it gets very personal, and when we're weighing ...

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for." –William G.T. Shedd Source: IMPhoto1/Shutterstock Life presents us with defining moments—opportunities to step forward into the unknown ...

The world is paying a price for letting "lingering concerns about safety and ideological opposition" deter governments from constructing new nuclear power plants, according to the Tony Blair Institute ...