The government argues that the higher costs of private borrowing are outweighed by the transfer of risk, preventing expensive construction overruns and maintenance bills.
As a former money manager, I think understanding the nature of risk and managing exposures can apply to preventing risk across various industries.
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This is not the first time a study has shown a benefit in preventing the risk of cancer.
Government assistance to the banking system should be based on solely preventing systemic risk that would endanger the entire financial system and the economy.
As the crisis was unfolding, Mr. Sarkozy met with Jewish and Muslim leaders, a move many saw as a means of preventing the risk of community infighting.
The report comes on the same day the Obama Administration will unveil new proposals to limit the trading activities of big banks as a way of reining in risk-taking and preventing another financial crisis.
From analyzing trends to preventing overtraining and risk of injury, the micoach Elite System will help maintain optimum levels of player performance week in, week out throughout the season.
It had recently introduced new risk controls, aimed at preventing the kind of toxic investments that led to it losing tens of billion of dollars in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
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In that case, the double dip fear could continue hanging over the market, preventing the reduction in risk premium assumed in our non-recession scenario.
The federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is aimed at preventing a "serious risk to the financial system, " which is "critical to our overall economy, " Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tells NPR.
It is even possible that this new drug might someday be given to people who are at risk for Alzheimer's disease, preventing the disorder from ever occurring.
Meanwhile, ViroPharma in Exton, Pa. hopes to launch clinical trials of a more radical approach: preventing outbreaks by infecting high-risk patients with innocuous strains to prevent toxic strains from taking hold.
Meanwhile, ViroPharma (nasdaq: VPHM - news - people ) in Exton, Pa. hopes to launch clinical trials of a more radical approach: preventing outbreaks by infecting high-risk patients with innocuous strains to prevent toxic strains from taking hold.
But advocates for preventing nuclear proliferation say it highlights the risk that terrorists could obtain enough fuel to build a nuclear device.
Other studies have suggested that this food regimen may help in preventing second heart attacks, lowering cancer risk and stopping the need for diabetes drugs in patients with type 2 diabetes.
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The drug does cause side-effects in some patients, including, rarely, cancer of the lining of the womb, but the scientists said that the increased chance of preventing breast cancer returning far outweighed the risk.
Studies show that it's about 90% effective in preventing breast cancer in moderate and high-risk women.
When the stents are used according to their product labels, the risk seems to be balanced out by their benefit in preventing re-clogging, which might also cause heart attacks.
But an additional indication, for acutely ill medical patients at risk for VTE, does not appear likely in the near future, as a new trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that one of these novel drugs, though effective at preventing VTE, also resulted in a significant increase in bleeding risk.
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The Marines first appeared at a 'behind closed doors' hearing in October when an interim order was made, preventing the publication of their names due to a "real and immediate risk" to their lives.
Lilly and Sankyo have high hopes for the drug, and are testing in a big trial to prove that prasugrel is better that Plavix in preventing heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events in patients at high risk.
Eliquis was the first anti-coagulant to prove that it reduced the risk of death compared to warfarin, which has been the standard of care for preventing strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder, for seven decades.
Researchers, for example, recently showed for the first time that a Mediterranean diet can have as powerful an effect as drugs in preventing heart attacks, strokes and deaths from cardiovascular disease in subjects at high risk of heart disease.
Part of the issue is that the benefit of taking insulin is so big--preventing blindness and organ damage--that even a small long-term cancer risk might be acceptable.
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