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June 2008
  • Treatment of Hypertensive Diabetics
  • Calcification On Mammogram
  • The Trouble With Urine
  • The Polypill Briefly Revisited
  • ED Predicts CVD
  • Cancer Trends
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Bankruptcy / Gambling / Suicide
March 2008
  • Reliability of Clinical Trials
  • Gender Equality
  • Drug Side Effects
  • Inflammation, CVD, COPD & CRP
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Past Performance Does Not Predict the Future
January 2008
  • Electronic Health Records - Good or Bad News for Insurers?
  • NNT—The Hidden Stat in Statins
  • Polypharmacy Revisited
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Corporate Securitization of Receivables
November 2007
  • Do doctors collude with patients?
  • Nondisclosure: An Alternative View
  • eGFR: A Better Measure of Renal Function?
  • Young Female Heart Disease Mortality Rising
  • Contagious Cancers
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Closely-Held Businesses and the Credit Crunch
September 2007
  • Prescription drug mortality
  • Statin issues—cancer risk / post-stroke mortality
  • Asia topics—food safety / psychological Illness
  • Is it mental illness or moodiness?
  • South African innovation
  • Training and continuing professional development
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: The Foreclosure Crisis
July 2007
  • Depression and Technology
  • Cancer Incidence and Mortality Rising in Asia
  • Over-estimation of Cardiovascular Disease
  • Late Effects of Radiation Therapy
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Disguising Debt
May 2007
  • Coming to Grips With Non-Disclosure
  • TGF-ß—Cancer Paradox
  • Breast Cancer Mortality Improves in Women Under 70
  • Prostate Cancer Mortality Is Doubled in Obese Men
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Financial Fraud in Closely-Held Companies
March 2007
  • Extreme Sports
  • Epidemic of Diagnoses
  • Atrial Fibrillation - Early Mortality
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Financial Fraud - The Growing Problem
January 2007
  • Using Data for Competitive Advantage
  • Depression Drugs Increase Fracture Risk
  • Insurable Interest and SOLI
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: The Mystery of Financial Statements
November 2006
  • Karin Lloyd: Claims Statistics—A New Point of Competition?
  • DI—Insuring the Whole Person
  • Non-contestability Clauses
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Bankruptcy - Early Warnings
September 2006
  • E-Signatures and More
  • Total and Permanent Disability—Is There a Better Way
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Loss of Earnings
July 2006
  • Electronic Health Records and Restricted Access
  • Biological Aging
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Revisiting Due Diligence
August 2008
  • Disability Income: The Biopsychosocial  Effect
  • Genetic Testing Update
  • Recreational Injury Rates
  • Pre-dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Adoption of International Accounting Rules
February/March 2009
  • Voice Signatures
  • Teleinterviewing and Disability Income
  • Sleeping Pill Risks
  • Sudden Death and Antipsychotics
  • All-Age Polypharmacy
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Accounting Standards-Low Credibility
October 2008
  • Editorial: Trust and confidence in risk management
  • Disability Income: Translating bio-psychosocial research into claims management practice
  • FDA posts list of potential problem drugs
  • Bone-strengthening drugs suspected as promoting fractures
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Asset valuation is not a science
December 2008
  • Outsourcing: Caution
  • Value of Exercise ECGs
  • Waist Circumference / Waist-Hip Ratio
  • Is Family History Unnecessary?
  • Medical Studies: Meta-Analysis
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Is It a Going Concern?
April/May 2009
  • Cardiovascular Disease: How Much a Calculated Risk?
  • Point of View: Legal Risk for Innovative Underwriting Tools and Practices
  • Counterpoint: Legal Risk for Innovative Underwriting Tools and Practices
  • More on Evidence-based Ratings
  • Prostate Cancer Screening: Conflicting Studies, Watchful Waiting and Mortality Risk
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Accounting Fraud in Privately Held Companies
August/September 2009
  • Underwriting Manuals: Strategic Dilemmas Part 2
  • Managing Underwriters In the Age of Facebook and Twitter
  • Women, Obesity and Cancer
  • Statins and Myopathy
  • Celiac Disease Mortality Greater Than Thought
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic Classic - “Just Trust Me” (November, 2001)
June/July 2009
  • Reports From the 2009 LUCID Conference
  • The Social Construction of Illness
  • In Memory of Brack—Mortality / Morbidity Patterns
  • False-Positives in Cancer Screening
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic: Predicting Corporate Bankruptcy
October/November 2009
  • Teleinterviewing
  • Chronic Pain
  • Underwriting Manuals
  • Depression Mortality
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Due Diligence
December 2009/January 2010
  • Teleinterviewing: The Conversation
  • Automating Underwriting
  • Depression Treatments
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Valuing Goodwill
February 2010/March 2010
  • Underwriting the Elderly
  • Diabetes Update
  • Female Issues in Underwriting
  • Unnecessary Medical Screening
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Economic Crime