Treasurys remain a top choice for investors who value short-term safety over long-term growth because they carry negligible risk of default, says Erik Weisman, a portfolio manager at fund company MFS Investment Management.
Unless preservation of capital is your absolute priority and growth is of no importance, the right approach is to find a balance between short-term safety and the pursuit of long-term results.
The lack of a bailout also could lead to more safety buying longer term.
But the panel dashed the company's hopes, saying there wasn't enough long-term safety data.
Long-term safety studies on drugs being developed today are far more vigorous than drugs developed years ago.
Critics say the research is too little too late to rapidly assess the long term safety of mobile phone use.
The long term safety, therefore, needs to be confirmed, stressed the researchers.
James Stein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison calls the cholesterol suppressor "the hottest drug on the horizon, " although he cautions that longer-term safety data are needed.
As a dietary supplement, carnitine is designated as "generally regarded as safe" by the Food and Drug Administration, but few studies have looked at its long-term safety.
For example, how will transplanted human iPS cell derivatives behave in terms of cell fate and safety long-term in clinically relevant transplantation settings in rodents or larger animals that are good models for humans?
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Indeed, in America, the Tourette Syndrome Association felt it necessary to issue a statement warning of the paucity of long-term safety data, especially in children, and the potential interactions of nicotine with drugs given to treat the syndrome.
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The young NRC changed dramatically in response to the Three Mile Island incident and the need to make the NRC above the normal politics of the day as the long-term safety of the environment transcends the four-year political cycle.
But Fisher decided against the race (knowing that another statewide loss would be a huge political albatross around his neck), and the three members of Congress all passed, each preferring to seek the relative safety of another term in the House.
The 1960s were when the Food and Drug Administration, in the wake of the thalidomide scandal, started requiring proof of efficacy and long-term safety, and when medicine started relying on clinical trials that compared new treatments to old ones or to inert sugar pills.
There is real hope, thanks to legislation expected by the end of the year and the public discussion of drug safety that has occurred since Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Vioxx, that the FDA is going to get better at tracking the long-term safety of the pills millions of people swallow every day.
Investors flocked to the safety of long-term government bonds, providing a tin lining to the darkening clouds over the economy.
Marietta S. Robinson, of Michigan, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission for a term of seven years from October 27, 2010, vice Thomas Hill Moore, term expired.
In that study, researchers looked at the data from two already completed studies, the Vioxx Gastrointestinal Outcomes Research study (VIGOR) and Celecoxib Long-Term Arthritis Safety Study (CLASS), and concluded that both drugs might slightly increase the risk of cardiac events such as heart attack and stroke.
They plan an additional 18-month study, starting next year, to explore the drug's long-term effectiveness and safety, as well as risk behavior and pill-taking practices.
We have invited all of the major players in industry that do deepwater drilling and production to send their CEO and top technical folks to have a discussion about what we might consider doing in the short term to ensure safety, getting to the point that was made before.
Long-term DAPT use can lead to additional safety risks, such as increased bleeding events, which is why shorter-term duration of DAPT may be meaningful for patients.
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Finally, should REGN727 have safety issues which arise on long term use (CETP inhibitors come to mind), this compound will be dead.
He planned to fill out the remainder of his term updating chemical-safety laws, enacting new curbs on gun violence and steering federal dollars back to New Jersey to help communities rebuild after superstorm Sandy.
Among dozens of long-term suggestions, which deal in large part with institutional changes to make the NASA bureaucracy more safety conscious, the CAIB report offered eight short-term recommendations before returning to flight, many of which concern engineering issues.
Engler, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board for a term of five years, vice William E.
Euro-style social safety nets encourage Euro-style long term or structural unemployment.
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Any uptick in sentiment for the euro zone can detract from any safety flight into gold in the short term, said Adam Klopfenstein, senior market strategist with MF Global.
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We believe the report does not justify the moratorium as written and that the moratorium as changed will not contribute measurably to increased safety and will have immediate and long term economic effects.
But in the short term, we have to ensure the safety of our workers.
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