While cognitive rehabilitation does not appear harmful, weak evidence exists to support the use of cognitive-specific interventions to improve spatial neglect, disability, memory and functional status of older adults who experience stroke.
Compared with weight gain during other life intervals, excess weight retained after childbirth appears to be particularly harmful, as evidence suggests that weight retained in the post-partum tends to be distributed centrally, and therefore, may increase the risk of developing chronic disease [ 2, 6].
An interesting side issue is that, taken together, these studies suggest that being sent to boarding school very early in life is harmful – the hardest evidence I have seen.
There is no doubt that alcohol is harmful, and current evidence (paywall) suggests this is the case even in small amounts, and certainly less than 13 units per day.
We calculated the secondary effects of treatment on alcohol-attributable harmful events using evidence derived from the published literature.
Though the disease process that leads to fever may be harmful, no convincing evidence shows that fever is harmful; despite this; many parents and physician believe that antipyretic treatment improves febrile children discomfort and behavior [ 12].
Provision of pharmaceutical marketing materials is widely perceived in the development community as a cause of wasteful and possibly harmful prescribing; hard evidence for or against this would be valuable for future interventions and advocacy.
The ratings on perceived harms do not represent objective knowledge about SHV harms given that definitive evidence of harmful health effects of SHV, if any, may require years of research to reveal.
A higher prevalence of harmful drinking is evidenced in girls with a higher number of unexcused absences (OR=2.06; 95% CI 1.31 to 1.3.25) (table 3).
"After three years of investigation and millions of dollars, they can present no evidence of harmful intent, foreign influence, or harm.
