At the same time, the problem with case reports is that they are considered the lowest form of evidence in medicine.
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However, we cannot on one hand promote evidence-based medicine and on the other hand ignore what we do not like.
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We live in a world of evidence-based medicine, where we are urged to base our medical recommendations and decisions on clinical studies.
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What would the high lords of evidence-based medicine have made of Kelman?
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Aetna applied evidence-based medicine data in their partnership with US Oncology and saw a 35 percent reduction in costs with improved patient outcomes.
More importantly, evidence-based medicine always favors old therapies over new ones.
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Carl Heneghan, Director, Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford is part of a Cochrane team reviewing the effectiveness of the anti-viral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza.
The two-year-old start-up seeks to combine evidence-based medicine, behavioral modification techniques and smart design to combat major illnesses, such as diabetes, and cardiovascular disease before they become full-blown.
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Today, evidence-based medicine is accessible for clinicians and linked to software that provides real-time, high-quality clinical decision support, which leads to increased accuracy, better patient care, streamlined documentation and the elimination of costs formerly related to manual inefficiencies.
But two studies released yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine found no evidence that the off-label use of the drug saves lives.
Frank Barry, Professor of Cellular Therapy at the University of Galway and scientific director of the Regenerative Medicine Institute said evidence of the usefulness of stem cells was growing.
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Sir Richard Peto, the renowned British statistician who conducted an analysis showing "no credible evidence" that the cholesterol medicine Vytorin causes cancer, defended himself in a sharply worded letter to congressmen investigating the medicine.
The New York Times reported last week on new evidence the power of storytelling in medicine.
The Institute of Medicine has found strong evidence that TV watching is associated with child obesity.
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In short, we have substantial solid scientific evidence that markets can work in medicine.
The Health and Social Care Committee were listening to evidence from British Association of Perinatal Medicine, on 9 February 2012.
While medical practice has operated on a platform of traditional beliefs, over the last thirty years medicine has come to rely on scientific evidence and plausibility.
During the two-and-a-half-week hearing, the jury was presented with evidence from experts in fields such as drugs, emergency medicine, pathology and police equipment and training.
Students will help improve Watson's language and domain analysis capabilities by judging the evidence it provides and analyzing its answers within the domain of medicine.
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But plenty of medicine has only a thin base in scientifically reviewed evidence, meaning that the opinions, judgments and prejudices of individual doctors often determine how treatment is given.
The programme, Magic or Medicine - Homeopathy and the NHS, has also uncovered evidence that the NHS in Scotland is spending far more per person on homeopathy than its English counterpart.
In fact, randomised trials and systematic reviews of evidence were introduced into the social sciences long before they became common in medicine.
In medicine, your baseline need has to be for a level of evidence that can lead to your conclusions.
As evidence of her entrepreneurial drive, Guaneri helped build the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, Calif.
There are no statistics, but there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that Indian doctors are buzzing about the new opportunities to practice American-style medicine in India.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has just released a large-scale report reviewing the evidence for the role of certain lifestyle variables and environmental factors in breast cancer risk.
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"For these children, " Prof Mukhopadhyay said, "the leading drug treatment simply doesn't work, and there's some evidence that their condition may even be aggravated by the use of a long term controller medicine that isn't helping".
"There really isn't any compelling scientific evidence to use valerian as a sleep aid, " says Meir Kryger, a professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.
Despite a lack of evidence and the skepticism of the medical community, passionate supporters have kept the therapy alive in alternative medicine circles.
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The first evidence that RNAi can actually treat disease in living creatures was published in today's issue of Nature Medicine.
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