Asbestos: Avoiding a Pyrrhic Victory

The Conquest of Lead Poisoning: A Pyrrhic Victory

States has often been declared a public health victory. The history of lead poisoning has all the essential elements of a successful campaign: A long, embittered battle was waged by a small cadre of intrepid parents , scientists, policy makers, and physicians against government inertia and industry opposition, and they won. The death toll from overt lead poisoning was staunched. In the 1960s, t...

A Pyrrhic Victory? Bank Bailouts and Sovereign Credit Risk

We show that financial sector bailouts and sovereign credit risk are intimately linked. A bailout benefits the economy by ameliorating the under-investment problem of the financial sector. However, increasing taxation of the non-financial sector to fund the bailout may be inefficient since it weakens its incentive to invest, decreasing growth. Instead, the sovereign may choose to fund the bailo...

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Asbestos Presence in a Factory that Produced Asbestos-Containing Products

In 2007, research was carried out to determine the type and amount of asbestos fibers in a Croatian factory with a long history of making asbestos-containing products.Since the 1970s, asbestos fibres have been considered carcinogenic in humans i.e as a known cancer-causing agent. In the environment, asbestos fibres are inactive and naturally resist biodegradation. In time, fibres can only be gr...

Final report of the Lyme disease review panel of the infectious diseases society of america: a pyrrhic victory?

In April 2008, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) entered into an agreement with Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to voluntarily undertake a special review of its 2006 Lyme disease guidelines. This agreement ended the Attorney General's investigation into the process by which the guidelines were developed. The IDSA agreed to convene an independent panel to conduct ...