AIDS and men. Taking risks or taking responsibility?

Beyond Bristol: taking responsibility.

Taking risks seriously.

I was working recently with a group of Danish doctors on a course where they had a chance to talk about some of their most difficult patients: complex cases, challenging ones, people who had worn them down over the years by consulting very often but never getting any better. One theme came up again and again in their stories. It was the theme of risk. The doctors on the course didn’t mean the k...

Taking risks with injury prevention.

At SMARTRISK, we want you to take risks. Don't forget your helmet, or your parachute. It's that simple. — SMARTRISK home page 1 I t is widely accepted that new public health initiatives should be scrutinized, just as we scrutinize the evidence on new drugs. Ideally, such programs should be evaluated before or soon after they are introduced, especially if they take a novel and untested approach ...

Risk-Taking-Neutral Background Risks

This paper examines how decision making under uncertainty is affected by the presence of a background risk. By background risk, we refer to a risk for which there is no market for trading or hedging. In particular, we construct a class of background risks that we label as risk-taking-neutral (RTN). These background risks have the property that they will not alter the choice decisions made with ...

Taking Risks to Transform Science

Tackling long-standing problems in science or refuting dogma is not necessarily the best strategy for a young investigator seeking tenure. But just like investing in risky stocks when young, perhaps it should be. Amy Maxmen reports.