What we were interested in doing back in those early days of human molecular genetics was just trying to find out some basic information about inherited variation in our DNA. And it was purely by accident in those studies that we generated, totally out of the blue, what proved to be the very first DNA fingerprint.
Meanwhile, studies like those conducted by Khurana and his colleagues, though early, are likely to add to the appeal of statins.
By emphasizing precaution, advocates can favor those studies that appear to show a hazard and appeal to the public, always relying on the argument that anyone who questions the interpretation of the evidence must be a shill of industry.
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This finding is consistent with those of 18 experimental studies conducted by other researchers, none of which found any benefit from mandatory disclaimers.
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Other studies though, particularly those by David Neumark of the University of California at Irvine and William Wascher at the Federal Reserve, consistently found the opposite.
Ice levels were measured by satellite, and those measurements were confirmed using submarine studies and ocean-based sensors.
Those who need the assurance of statistical studies would be better served by the Rahn Curve (named after economist Richard Rahn), which shows a long-term negative relationship between the size of government expenditures as a percentage of GDP and economic growth rates.
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Both studies, funded by the manufacturers, found the drugs to be effective in those populations.
The study's findings echo those of previous studies, including a study of Swedish prostate-cancer patients by the same team of researchers.
Even some drug executives have backed doing more studies of the type done by FDA safety expert David Graham, who was one of those to warn about Vioxx.
In short, using the methodology of studies such as those done in Florida, claims of Medicaid job gains are overstated by nearly two-fifths for the average state and may be overstated by considerably more than that for particular states considering expansion.
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If those results hold up in later studies, that would make Isis' chemical, still known by the code number 301012, more powerful than the two most powerful cholesterol cutters on the market: Crestor, from AstraZeneca, and Vytorin, from Merck and Schering-Plough.
Allen McConnell, a psychology professor at Miami University in Ohio who studies pet owners' behavior, said those who opt for animal preservation can be motivated by grief, a need for belonging and anthropomorphism the act of ascribing human attributes to animals or even inanimate objects.
One conclusion emerging from the research, says Irving Kirsch, a professor at Harvard Medical School who wrote the preface to the volume, is that the effect is strongest for those disorders that are predominantly mental and subjective, a conclusion backed by a meta-analysis of placebo studies that was carried out in 2010 by researchers at the Cochrane Collaboration, an organisation that reviews evidence for medical treatments.
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Multinational firms are a lot more productive than purely domestic ones, according to economists Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and Helen Simpson, in a working paper for the Institute for Fiscal Studies and there is some evidence that operations owned by foreign multinationals have higher labour productivity than those owned by British multinationals, partly because they invest more.
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