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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
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
May 2010/June 2010
  • DTC Genetic Tests
  • Genes and Infectious Disease
  • Occupational Mortality
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Forensic Underwriting
July 2010/August 2010
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Personal Genomics and Direct to Consumer Services
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Valuation of Patents and Intellectual Property
September 2010/October 2010
  • Attempted Suicide and Mortality
  • Pre-existing Condition Exclusions
  • Prehypertension
  • Questioning Routine Mammography
  • Prostate Cancer Screening
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Filial Responsibility
November 2010/December 2010
  • Dementia Mortality
  • Dementia Screening –The Sweet 16
  • Migraine and Stroke
  • Family History vs. Personal Genomics
  • Skepticism and Evidence-Based Underwriting
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Indicators of Financial Statement Fraud
January 2011/February 2011
  • Asthma Prevalence
  • Viral Hemorrhagic Fever / International Travel
  • The Suicide Problem in Asia
  • Social Media
  • Modern Risk Appraisal
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Personal Income Forecasting
March 2011/April 2011
  • Gender-Based Premiums Banned in Europe
  • Claims and Technology
  • Blood Pressure and Mortality in Young People
  • Rising Incidence of Thyroid Cancer
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Two Sets of Books
May 2011 / June 2011
  • Foreign Travel
  • Mortality Prognosis in the Elderly
  • Claims and Insurer's Websites
  • Underwriting Engines
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - International Accounting—Fair Value Measurement
July 2011 / August 2011
  • Adverse Drug Reactions, the Patent Cliff and Generic Drug Risks
  • Diabetes—Intensive Blood Glucose Control
  • CVD Risk Stratification Using HbA1c
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic Classic - Knowing the Cost, But Not the Value
September 2011 / October 2011
  • Customers and Rules Engines
  • Underwriting and Claims System Integration
  • Customer Service vs. Profitability
  • Alcohol Use in Britain
  • Financial Underwriting Clinic - Bankruptcy