Three Mistakes about Doing Good (and Bad)

Good and Bad News about Ebola

Filoviruses have been known to science and medicine since 1967 (Marburg virus) and 1976 (Ebola virus). Since then, more than 30 independent transmission events have been documented between the zoonotic world and the human world, and more than 2,300 human cases have been recorded [1]. The outbreak that began inWest Africa in 2014, however, has changed the equation considerably; although it began...

Good News and Bad News about Share Repurchases*

We estimate the cross-sectional relationship between open market repurchases and accounting data for a large sample of dividend-paying and non-dividend-paying firms over a twelve year period (1984-95). Consistent with the hypothesis that firms use open market repurchases to reduce the agency costs of free cash flow, we find that repurchases are positively related to proxies for free cash flow a...

The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly about Oxidative Stress

Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and cancer (e.g., leukemia) are the most devastating disorders affecting millions of people worldwide. Except for some kind of cancers, no effective and/or definitive therapeutic treatment aimed to reduce or to retard the clinic and pathologic symptoms induced by AD and PD is presently available. Therefore, it is urgently needed to understand ...

Bad and good news about using software assurance tools

Software assurance tools – tools that scan the source or binary code of a program to find weaknesses – are the first line of defense in assessing the security of a software project. Even though there are a plethora of such tools available, with multiple tools for almost every programming language, adoption of these tools is spotty at best. And even though different tools have distinct abilities...

Good and bad news about latest outcomes for smoking.