"We analyzed a very extensive US database for the presence of chemicals in the US surface waters and compared it with the toxicity data of these chemicals for aquatic organisms, such as plants, ...

I have always been interested in how people make decisions under uncertainty—especially decisions about safety. But it was not until I began studying housing conditions and disaster risk that I ...

The concept of risk plays a central role in modern society, evident from its wide application in daily life. A quick internet search for “risk” yields millions of results, and the term has become part ...

DTC Drug Ads: New Study Finds Perception of Risks Diluted by Lengthy Side Effects List A study on direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug advertising published Monday in Nature Human Behavior finds that ...

One of the aspects of executive coaching I enjoy the most is interview coaching. Being able to assist someone in achieving their next career goal is a real privilege. However, I see a consistent theme ...

Text-only warnings of health impacts of e-cigarettes were associated with an increased belief in risk and addiction from vaping. The warnings outperformed nicotine addiction warnings on outcomes like ...

Heart disease remains a leading cause of mortality worldwide, prompting efforts to understand and shape how individuals perceive and manage cardiovascular risk. Perception of risk influences decisions ...

From confined spaces to cutting-edge aircraft, failures to align risk perception with reality can have catastrophic consequences. What steps can close the gap to improve safety outcomes. The gap ...

Symptom-based individual risk prediction for late mortality: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study study (CCSS). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

Several hundred thousand chemicals are considered as potentially environmentally relevant. Scientists from the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau in Germany show that monitoring data for surface waters are ...