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 ...

Adults diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have a significantly higher risk of suicide, new research suggests. A study of nearly 22,000 Canadian adults, including 529 with ADHD, ...

Risk aggregation and dependence structures constitute a fundamental aspect of modern statistical research, particularly in the realms of finance, insurance and risk management. This field addresses ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Combining local and very real risk statistics for SARS-CoV-2 infection with an exercise in imagination helped participants in a Duke University psychology study make more realistic ...

The estimated lifetime risk of being diagnosed with cancer is nearly 1 in 2 (43%) for females, and nearly 1 in 2 (45%) for males born in 1961 in the UK. 1 These figures take account of the possibility ...

When we read that 50% of people believe this or 75% of people are worried about that, it provides a level of reassurance as to the validity of what we are reading. Big percentages make us feel ...