The government tries to adjust its payments based on the perceived patient risk, but the insurance industry has figured out a way to game that system and extract even more profit by focusing on the least costly patients for a given medical condition, one recent academic study found.
The study was based on data contributed by 596 patients with the disease, formally called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. By showing that the drug didn't have any effect on progression of the condition, it contradicted a small study three years ago that suggested such a benefit was possible.
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For months Ms. Weiss tried desperately to get her son out of the study, warning that his condition was spiraling downward and that he was in danger of committing suicide.
The nutritional condition of all the children in the study was also assessed, in the form of their body-mass indices (BMI), a measure of how much fat their bodies contained.
That proves the study results successfully predict a general condition.
One of the most intriguing ideas about theory of mind comes from another sort of lesion study, an examination of the puzzling condition known as autism.
In this study, 17% of the patients developed the condition, called neutropenia.
The new study found that one in 170 Orcadian women suffer from the condition.
These samples, which remain in good condition after more than 30 years, are now the subject of intense study, because they are a snapshot of maternal health at the time of pregnancies whose babies are now well into adulthood.
People with underlying heart problems seem to be especially vulnerable to developing this condition, said Wayne Ray, professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt and the study's lead researcher.
David Dye, 65 years old and an avid cyclist, snowboarder and windsurfer who has been battling the condition for 15 years, was the first person to sign up for the study.
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Because of the long follow-up period of the study, in which participants who were dementia-free developed the condition many years later, this is a less likely explanation, but was not ruled out in the research, Saczynski said.
The blockbuster cholesterol drug Vytorin failed to improve a rare heart valve condition called aortic stenosis and seemed to increase rates of cancer, a new study says, dealing another blow to the top-selling drug and its makers, Merck and Schering-Plough .
According to an oft-cited 1996 University of Virginia study led by psychologist Bella DePaulo, lying is part of the human condition.
Atul, who admits to being "the brash one in the pack, " was keen to study in the U.S. His dad agreed, on the condition that he get married first.
The Framingham Foot Study looked at 1, 370 adults and found strong family histories of the condition.
This study highlights the impact obesity will have on the numbers of people with the condition in the future.
Early results suggest it may be safer to leave the condition alone, said Columbia University neurologist Dr. Jay Mohr, who helped lead the study.
The USC study began a decade ago at two Wall Street banks that granted access on the condition they remain anonymous.
The study comes after the 2005 report by the Welsh schools inspection service, Estyn, found the condition of secondary schools is 'good' or 'very good' in only a quarter of cases.
So based on one mediocre study from 12 years ago, involving only a small number of patients, for only one condition, Cohen is calling for acupuncture to become standard treatment for all cancer patients.
The study was published as the University of Edinburgh announced it is conducting research into the causes of the condition in a bid to find a cure.
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