As a dietary supplement, carnitine is designated as "generally regarded as safe" by the Food and Drug Administration, but few studies have looked at its long-term safety.
Howarth said other federal climate scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have published recent studies documenting massive methane leaks from natural gas operations in Colorado and other Western states.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration generally only accepts studies in which patients are assigned to take a drug randomly, eliminating the possibility that people who take statins do better simply because they take better care of themselves.
Harvard's Antman says he's hopeful that under an Obama administration, those types of studies might happen.
Something similar happened with breast cancer: Avastin won the Food and Drug Administration's approval after studies suggested it delayed disease progression.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies, 2009.
And progress has been glacial in this field, partly because of all the political controversy about embryonic stem cells and partly because the science is very very difficult and the Food and Drug Administration has been cautious about letting studies start.
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He was characterized by a brash style, and chose to file with the Food and Drug Administration for approval of Provenge on studies that had failed their main goal of preventing tumors from growing, but seemed to make patients live longer.
The seven categories it studies include tax policy and administration, tariff and other barriers to trade, regulatory reform and education.
Kathleen L. McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, established a set of field studies in which female second-years researched the reasons behind differing academic performances between male and female students.
Victor Cha of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a former Bush administration negotiator with North Korea, says the regime has been trying hard to prove its mettle as it enters an unstable era of new leadership.
The Food and Drug Administration generally frowns on such "retrospective" studies.
However, separate research by the institute, which was consistent with results from similar studies by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), showed increased risks for pedestrians from quiet hybrids running on electricity at low speeds.
Anita Elberse, a Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, studies high performers in creative industries from basketball superstar LeBron James to pop diva Lady Gaga, from actor Tom Cruise to tennis powerhouse Maria Sharapova.
Representing the university administration at the meeting was Melanie Boyd, director of undergraduate studies in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program and special adviser to the dean of Yale College and the student-run Women's Center.
These are the kinds of big, randomized, controlled studies that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires before a new drug is approved.
Within those categories, there are more than 100 sub-criteria, like degree of confinement in the work environment and income growth potential. (My colleague Jacquelyn Smith covered the last best and worst lists here.) The data come from the BLS, the Census Bureau, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and an array of private compensation surveys, trade association studies and state statistics.
In the intervening period, the Clinton Administration -- which remains adamantly opposed to such a step -- commissioned two studies by defense contractors intended to undercut the case for additional procurement of B-2 bombers.
Brent Wisner of the Los Angeles firm Baum Hedlund Aristei Goldman, argues the Food and Drug Administration shouldn't have approved Zoloft because Pfizer didn't publish some clinical studies that found the drug about as effective as a placebo.
In 2004, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel gave Intrinsa the thumbs down and called for larger, longer studies to ensure that the medication was safe, in addition to proving that it actually helped women's sex lives.
The Chairholder is Dr Emilios Solomou, Executive Vice President for Administration of the University of Nicosia and a faculty member teaching in the Departments of Education and European Studies and International Relations.
Erbitux, a cancer drug that Bristol is developing with Manhattan neighbor ImClone Systems (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people), is currently in limbo--the companies are trying to add data to their studies to get the drug past regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Levitra, an orange pill compared to Viagra's blue, based on studies showing that men were on average five times more likely to achieve an erection suitable for intercourse when taking the pill compared with those given a dummy medicine.
It is possible Pfizer could file with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration based on those results, in addition to the GIST results, but the idea is controversial because the studies had no placebo controls.
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