"They're very high-risk people and so the level of other treatments was very high, " Arnett said.
Across the country in California, state lawmakers are considering measures that would expand the categories of high-risk people who cannot legally purchase or possess firearms -- including repeat drug and drunk driving offenders and people who violate domestic violence restraining orders.
Finally, there is tremendous interest in the world of psychiatric research regarding whether treating high-risk young people with medications will protect them against developing severe mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
And while insurance companies will be prevented from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions once the exchange is open, in the meantime there will be a high risk pool where people with pre-existing conditions can purchase affordable coverage.
"We are running out of time to make sure that people in high-risk areas are properly protected from the devastation flooding can cause, and the ball is now in the government's court, " said Otto Thoresen, the ABI director general.
The new It Starts With Me campaign, created by the Terrence Higgins Trust, urges people in high-risk groups to get tested for HIV at least every 12 months, and more frequently if they have symptoms or have put themselves at risk by having unprotected sex, for example.
With predictions of a worse hurricane season than normal this year, one would think the 68m people living in high-risk regions had learned their lesson.
The downside is that it's more expensive, uncomfortable to wear for long periods of time and has to be custom fit, Reingold said, so it's suited for people working in high-risk laboratories.
's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Lipitor or Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Zocor cut the odds of heart attack or stroke in high-risk patients by a third, but they also can cause side effects that destroy muscle tissue and, eventually, the liver.
If the FDA adopts the panel's recommendation -- the agency isn't required to do so, but typically does in such cases -- it would mark the first time that a statin was approved for heart-disease-free people with healthy cholesterol levels but other risk factors, including high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation.
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So, you already had people defaulting because they had high-risk individual mortgages, and because they may have been speculating in homes.
Since March, Google has been combining data from across its sites to potentially better target adverts - which regulators see as "high risk" to people's privacy.
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Anthony Ware, who is leading prasugrel development at Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ), notes that most of the bleeding deaths occurred in patients in high-risk groups, such as those who had strokes or were low in body weight.
These are people who were previously uninsured or enrolled in high-risk plans that will soon be covered by exchanges.
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People with epilepsy or seizure disorders are also at high-risk.
But people may need additional protection if they are traveling to high-risk countries, handle poliovirus specimens in a laboratory or have close contact with a person who has polio.
The new study may point toward more individualized medicine -- one day people may be screened for these brain abnormalities that indicate high depression risk, and receive treatment based on that, he said.
The right set of emotions can even make up for bad numbers or technical uncertainty in high risk startups- whereas great numbers will rarely make up for a failure to make people feel the right way about what you are doing.
"People who are investing in the fund understand that it is a high-risk, very volatile fund, " he said on the conference call.
Instead, it appears they were slapping bogus ratings on poor-quality, high-risk mortgage bonds just to ensure they got their fees, ignoring the fact that real people were counting on them to give an independent view of the safety of the investments.
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"None of this applies to people with FAP or non-polyposis colorectal cancer syndromes or very high colon cancer risk based on family history, " Ladabaum says.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg welcomed the report, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It is based on the insight that many people share, which is that it is not right to have very high-risk and very low-risk banking activities so intertwined that, when something goes wrong, it is the taxpayer that picks up the bill".
So the right people in the room, and more than half have no capacity to monitor high-risk third parties.
By applying machine intelligence to data sourced and sorted in this manner, marketers can create micro-segments of customers automatically, allowing them to give early discounts to people who are at a high risk of attrition.
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