Every day, consumers and their health care providers make decisions about medications, diagnostic tests and other medical interventions based on risk statistics. And according to the findings of an ...

Humans are generally lousy when it comes to understanding statistics. We tend to panic over remote risks (shark attacks are on the rise!) but dismiss larger but more mundane dangers like pedestrian ...

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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IN THIS issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Chao et al 1 report the results of a study that examined the impact of using four different risk/benefit measures when communicating survival ...

Both genetic and lifestyle factors contribute to individual-level risk of coronary artery disease. The extent to which increased genetic risk can be offset by a healthy lifestyle is unknown. The ...

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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 ...