Stewart has submitted proposals for six randomized clinical trials but has yet to win funding from the government or InSightec.

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Randomized clinical trials should be designed to confirm whether cherry products could provide a dietary or non-medication based alternative to prevent gout attacks.

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But the AHA fails to note that there have been no big randomized clinical trials with hard outcomes that show the benefit of their diet.

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But Straube admits that the Medicare decision on epoetin dosing is based on clinical habits and industry-promoted guidelines, not on the results of randomized clinical trials.

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Despite a number of randomized clinical trials suggesting that EMDR is at least as effective as other commonly accepted therapies for traumatic disorders (i.e. such as post-traumatic stress disorder), it still viewed as a bit of a fringe procedure by many in the mental health field.

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But randomized controlled clinical trials also are used to prove benefit in big drug studies.

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