Power cuts are common in Pakistan, but a nationwide failure is rare.
But Vioxx caused an increased risk of congestive heart failure, and Bextra led to rare skin reactions.
Here, then, is a retrospective look at some of the scariest side effects to crop up over the past 12 months--from rare events like liver failure or brain-wasting diseases to more common ones such as heart attacks or strokes.
Except in the rare cases of total market failure (like Darfur and North Korea), cash has huge advantages over food aid.
Both journalists and physicians, Wood notes, are more impressed by rare events, such as liver failure, that can be clearly associated with a drug.
However, in the rare circumstances in which the impending or actual failure of an institution imposes substantial systemic risks, the standard procedures for resolving institutions may be inadequate.
The approval comes amid a flurry of research showing broader promise for the approach in a range of disorders, from a rare form of blindness to hemophilia to heart failure.
But while there may be a need for remedial FCC action--in the relatively rare case when there may be a proven market failure--any such action should be targeted narrowly to redress demonstrable consumer harms.
For the average user at least, the dangers of losing data through accidental deletion, hardware failure or even malware attack malware that deletes user data is quite rare nowadays far outweighs the dangers posed by hacker attack.
In this era of drug-spending cutbacks and safety panics it would seem like a recipe for failure: a drug that helps only a fifth of patients and might even have a rare, dangerous side effect.
The discovery that both boys had a rare metabolic condition called Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS), which results from a failure of the body to make its own cholesterol, explained many of their struggles during their early years.
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