You may remember about a year and a half ago, there was this medical study.
Of course, as with any medical study not performed on humans, there are some major caveats here.
Then there's the new medical study in the Journal of Occupational and Environment Medicine at Columbia University that looks into the cardiovascular health of business travellers.
America is good at looking after its servicemen's health and, in exchange, many of those airmen have agreed to be part of a long-term medical study that looks at all sorts of health-related questions.
"Typically, when we do a test or medical study, we're taking a snapshot, " said Dr. Herman Taylor, principal investigator of the Jackson Heart Study at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and one of the scientists enlisted from outside Harvard.
Early findings from a 2007 Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center study indicate that regularly practicing tasks that necessitate shutting out distractions can help healthy older adults improve their concentration.
Obese workers filed twice the number of workers' compensation claims, had seven times higher medical costs from those claims and lost 13 times more days of work from work injury or illness than other workers, according to a Duke University Medical Center study of the health records of more than 11, 000 Duke University employees.
She also assisted in the establishment of a network of university-affiliated facilities and intellectual disabilities research centers at major medical schools across the United States, including centers for the study of medical ethics at Harvard and Georgetown universities in 1971.
Instead, their syphilis went untreated for decades so medical researchers could study how the disease progressed.
Mr Alan Scott, who headed the Medical Research Council study into the effectiveness of a screening programme, welcomed the move.
Researchers at academic medical centers who study the disease say that so-called chronic Lyme, or post-Lyme, is very rare, hard to detect and not treatable with any further doses of antibiotics.
Or, at the other end of the spectrum, will the statute and accompanying regulations instead cast undue suspicion on relationships that are sometimes ambiguous, often symbiotic, and, in the case of medical research and study, actually beneficial to the public at large?
This study stands apart from similar medical research because it was funded by the British Medical Research Council, a government agency, to study a medicine that had been around for years.
One-quarter of these problems--which are often life threatening--are caused by preventable medical errors, the study says.
In that study the medical work histories of more than 78, 000 nurses were studied over a 10-year period.
"It's huge, " said Dr. Leslie Gordon, lead author of the study and medical director of the Progeria Research Foundation.
There had been a slight evidence of a risk with naproxen, but the study was stopped because data available from studies indicating a risk with Celebrex made it difficult to convince medical institutions to continue the study.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent: This study says metabolic syndrome is a problem in the United States because of the way we eat: lots of red meat, lots of processed meat, and too much fried food.
In a study of a large university hospital, my colleagues and I found that more than a fifth of the medical mishaps reported in the study could have been prevented if someone had been willing to risk having a difficult conversation.
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Today Vertex released more data from that study at a medical meeting in Orlando.
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But time heals all wounds and now, cautiously, study of the medical use of hallucinogens is returning.
But an exhaustive new study by the medical journal Lancet measuring global physical activity explodes the "myth" about the unfit Indian.
The international study published in medical publication, the Lancet, found that only Swedish men had enjoyed such a dramatic improvement in their fortunes.
As part of a study to determine medical costs, a team of researchers called more than one hundred hospitals across the United States.
She said, for instance, that U.S. studies, including the big Nurses Health Study at Harvard Medical School, have demonstrated the benefits of the diet in a U.S. population.
Recently, a story ( Analytical Trend Troubles Scientists) appeared in The Wall Street Journal that was critical of what turns out to be an increasingly common type of medical investigation: the observational study.
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For that last reason, and also because the Amish have come to welcome medical researchers who wish to study them for the edification of less well-disciplined examples of humanity, Dr Hsueh focused her endeavours in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where the Amish live.
Mr. SAVAGE: Well, about a year ago, the Lancet - the British medical journal - had a study of several doctors, saying that men who have been executed in the United States may well have suffered excruciating pain that was to some degree masked by the anesthesia - that they didn't get enough anesthesias to actually give them a painless death.
The study relates diet to strokes, said Dr. Nikolaos Scarmeas, a neurologist at Columbia University Medical Center and lead author of the study.
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Medical schools require future doctors to study cadavers for the purpose of gaining experience with actual human anatomy.
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