The FDA has required Vivus to do a study on the drug's cardiovascular effects.
"I'm just a little perplexed at how you could do a study that is much smaller and much shorter, " Ballantyne says.
Do a study on whether recycling plastic bottles is worth the effort.
Every year we do a study about Holiday consumer spending trends.
In 2010 sustainability accounting firm Ekos International was commissioned by Nike and Hewlett Packard to do a study on the strategic importance of employee engagement and CSR.
Merck could have found enough of the kind of patients who take Zetia to do a study that would have been more likely to have a positive result.
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So why do a study with gold as an overlay?
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It would have cost billions to do a gene study in just one disease.
That bad news it that the companies have to do a new study to produce this data.
But he calls for Bristol-Myers to do a large study to examine the drug's long-term effect on the heart.
Originally the San Francisco researchers had hoped to do a comparative study of different agencies' programmes, but for this project only Compassion chose to take part.
The problem: it is easy to do a small study in a few animals or a few people, and reach some optimistic conclusion that can be spun into good marketing copy.
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To complicate matters, Genentech did do such a study for its cancer treatment Avastin--and the drug extended survival, making it the standard of care for colorectal cancer patients whose cancer has started to spread.
"Commissioner Shah is correct that the state needs to take the time to do a comprehensive study of the health effects of fracking to protect the public health, " said biologist Sandra Steingraber, a leader of the anti-fracking movement.
Sanjay Kaul, a cardiologist at Cedars Sinai Hospital in L.A. who has been an FDA consultant, says the FDA should now require all cholesterol medicines to either do a big study showing they prevent heart problems before approval or only grant conditional approval and then demand the big study.
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"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.
You might ask yourself: Why do we need a study to report on a government study?
To do a psychological based study to get to the heart of the matter would not likely help us understand, either.
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One solution is to ignore the scientific reasons underpinning the difference, and to do a big clinical study--probably involving tens of thousands of patients with arthritis--to compare the risk of heart attack for the various drugs.
Then, this week, the King Institute of Preventive Medicine, a flagship government hospital in the Tamil Nadu capital of Chennai, announced its intention to do a double-blind study to see how effective the neem-papaya mix is in battling dengue.
Exaggerated praise can do harm, according to a study of 313 children ages 8 to 13 published this month in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
To really know whether antidepressants have long-term health risks, one would have to do a very, very large study in which 50 percent of the subjects were randomized to receive an antidepressant and the other 50 percent were randomized to take a placebo pill.
So I think all of these fit into a category that are in an area -- where everything you do people study closely -- should be a place where we can have a kind of serious discussion and accomplish them.
Professor SAPOLSKY: If you're a scientist what you get to do instead is to turn it into a scientific study.
To do so, a long-term study would be needed which compared people wearing the lenses and people who didn't, optometrists say.
The songs and postcards appear to be right - a study suggests we really do like to be beside the seaside.
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What one of the psychiatrists I spoke to said what they really need to do is show the effects in a controlled study.
As painful and humbling as it may be, America needs to do what a once-dominant business or sports team would do when the tide turns: study the ingredients of its competitors' success.
The process of committing yourself to such a study is one that you do not take alone.
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