Sentences with phrase «debate over the risks»

The surprising conclusion sparked a debate over the risks and benefits of screening for the disorder.

The study offers new data in an ongoing debate over the risks and benefits of using epinephrine to treat cardiac arrest, an often - fatal condition in which the heart stops beating.

For more on the debate over risks from Roundup - ready corn and the herbicide Roundup, read evolutionary geneticist * Michael Eisen's June blog post: «#GMOFAQ How Bt corn and Roundup Ready soy work, and why they should not scare you.»

And this is despite several debates over the risk of investing in cryptocurrencies, regulating them, and banning of ICOs in South Korea and China.

Not exact matches

U.S. regulators have approved a potato genetically engineered to resist bruising and that could lead to a lower risk of cancer, marking an interesting twist in the ongoing debate over so - called Frankenfoods.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

The Federal Reserve dropped «near term» from its statement that risks are roughly balanced, setting off a debate over whether that was bullish or bearish.

There is a debate, to be sure, over how many stocks are needed to reduce risk while maintaining a high return.

What makes climate change different, they say, is that there are five new variables: uncertain and fragmented environmental legislation and regulations; the reactions of capital and insurance markets to emerging business opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change.

The fact that Federal Reserve policy statements are pored over by investors was driven home once again when the removal of two words from the prior statement set off an intense debate over the central bank's view of risks to the economy.

The debate over regulation will also extend into the second quarter, presenting possible downside risks to ICOs in particular.

Our debates over pacifism often obscure the fact that both the supporter of war who kills and the conscientious objector who risks allowing defenseless people to be killed both share the same fundamental moral dilemma in spite of their different ways of solving it.

In fact, Genuine Risk was the first filly in 21 years even to enter the race — and her trainer, Jolley, and owners, Bert and Diana Firestone, debated for days over whether to send her.

Studies in Australia, 13 Canada, 14 and the United States15 16 have concluded that in some settings midwife managed home birth can be associated with as low a perinatal mortality as hospital birth for low risk women, reviving the debate over the need to allow women genuine choice.17 18

The debate over possible coalitions risked reopening the rift between Clegg's Orange Book wing of the party and the social democratic faction that leaned toward Labour.

«I do worry that a return to selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decades in our schools by throwing something else into the debate», she said.

The debate over the impact of the EU reform treaty continued this morning, with a London barrister specialising in European law arguing on BBC Radio 4's Today programme the red lines may be at risk if amendments were made in future.

County legislators viewed presentations on the risks of fracking waste products and heard from industry representatives during debate over the bill.

The claims have come amid a shift in focus in nutrition from fat to sugar, with warnings about the artery - clogging risks of butter and beef taking a backseat to new efforts to tax sugar - sweetened beverages - even as debates continue over the science of obesity prevention.

The debate will continue in the morbidly obese patients with BMI over 40, and the super obese with a BMI over 50, regarding what steps can and should be taken to lower the risks before these elective surgical procedures.»

The original application for the GE Hitachi plant in 2009 set off a protracted debate over whether the NRC, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, sufficiently weighs proliferation risks when licensing new types of enrichment technology (See «Laser plant offers cheap way to make nuclear fuel»).

While ezetimibe is known for its cholesterol - lowering effect, there is debate over whether it also reduces risk of heart disease.

These events — even more than the use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II — launched an ongoing public debate over whether the risks of radiation exposure outweigh the benefits of nuclear technology.

«It is time to move on from the fake debate over whether climate change is real or poses a risk, and onto the worthy debate about what actions we must take to avoid a climate catastrophe,» he said in an email.

Debate over the chemicals» role in declines in insect pollinators that had been on - going in the scientific literature jumped into the mainstream (see «Europe debates risk to bees»).

Debates are now erupting over the benefits and ecological risks of releasing such insects into the wild — and whether gene drives could also thwart invasive species such as Asian carp and cane toads, or combat other animal - borne pathogens such as the one causing Lyme disease.

The debate over the tamoxifen trial centres on the need to balance the risks of developing breast cancer with the possible risks to healthy people of taking a drug for many years.

The authors noted the findings may play a role in the ongoing debate over pre-participation ECG screenings for preventing sudden death in athletes by offering a new perspective on the greatest health risk for runners.

* Editor's Note (4/6/17): A paragraph was added after posting to reflect the ongoing debate over the potential risks of electrostatic sand for surface explorations on Titan.

The debate over how to meet the Paris goals «should be broader», the lead author tells Carbon Brief, because there are risks to relying on negative emissions from BECCS.

While the medical community is still in debate over whether or not male menopause is a defined period of a man's life, medical professionals all agree that low testosterone levels can lead to health risks.

Behind the scenes, however, there has been a fundamental debate brewing over what foods increase the risk of today's major chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

She said: «For me, I do worry that a return to more selection risks undermining the progress that we have seen over the course of the last decade in our schools, by throwing something else into the education debate rather than focusing on every school offering an excellent education.»

From creating tradable «enrollment rights» to help integrate schools to providing parents with better school performance information, a new book that aims to stake out a middle ground in the debate over school choice offers ways to enhance the benefits while mitigating the risks.

And it's fueling what could become a national debate over the proper responses by schools and mental health professionals for those deemed at risk of violence.

Often the debate over DB vs. DC plans focuses on the issue of risk, rather than the retirement incentives.

Furthermore, in accepting public funds, religious schools run the risk of being mired in political debates, battles over regulation and accountability, and disruptive inquiries into their school standards in admission, curriculum, and hiring practices.

Thus, in accepting government funds, they run the risk of being mired in political debates, battles over regulation and accountability, and disruptive inquiries into their school standards and curricula.

For years the debate over fuel economy has been about making cars smaller and lighter, changes that could put people at greater risk of dying or being injured in crashes.

If you are comfortable with the concept of the long term gain potential with the + / - risk layered over it, i.e. the down years along the way, I wont debate the choice.

In the never - ending debate over whether certain sources of outperformance — such as value and momentum — arise from risk or mispricing, for our purposes, it actually doesn't matter!

That is why the current debate over the very nature of the risk - free rate is so interesting.

Sure, we could while away the hours debating & agonising over that... but in absolute terms, all stocks (regardless of valuation) present some inescapable level of unquantifiable potential downside risk.

That is bound to lead to fights over aid as recipient countries debate which can prove its risk (drought, flooding or otherwise) is related to climate change, as opposed to garden - variety climate extremes.

And given the inherent wide range of people's feelings of risk, I also don't expect the evolving science to eliminate debate over how fast to push and how much to spend.

The debate over the merits and risks of such research brings to mind a conversation I recently had with Pete Seeger up at his mountainside cabin here in the Hudson Highlands.

I'd like to do more pieces like «Beyond the Eternal Food Fight» and «Debate Over Climate Risks — Natural or Not,» in which I convene via e-mail a batch of experts on issues related to sustainable human advancement.

I agree with Mann that it's unwise for scientists to avoid the public debate over drivers of climate risk and options for reducing it.

I wish there were an easy way to graph the high «dread to risk ratio» attending debates over a host of environmental and public health questions.

The idea here is to take the discussion beyond pro-nuke and anti-nuke debates over the appropriate «dread - to - risk ratio» for radiation and reactors and toward a more fundamental exploration of what policies and systems make the most sense as humanity's growth spurt crests.