To be fair, some studies do suggest a cancer risk associated with cellphone usage.

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In sum, some studies suggest you may do better investing in allegedly "low growth" markets.

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While companies typically slash sales and marketing budgets during tough times, some studies have suggested they would do better to turn up the advertising volume, says Reibstein.

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The first thing to say about this is that the data are mixed: Some studies find an effect of giving beta blockers such as propranolol, and other studies do not find this.

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All state schools are required to provide a daily religious service (though some fail to do so), to teach religious studies and to promote the spiritual and moral development of their pupils.

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And she keeps records: case studies of why some students flourish and others do not.

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For example, we have clear studies that have shown that ICDs do not improve survival for some groups of patients.

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Agents, even if working for the seller, do have some ethical duties to buyers, adds Alan Strudler, professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton.

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But the result is still surprising, because other recent studies, some of them even larger, have concluded that vitamin supplements do not provide any significant health benefits.

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The findings, drawn from 4, 500 heterosexual married U.S. couples participating in the National Survey of Families and Households, add some context to other studies that have found that husbands get more sex when they do more housework -- a kind of domestic quid pro quo.

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This helps explain why with some regularity the results of these studies can get overstated and presented as if they mean more than they do.

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Clinical studies do suggest the importance of bacterial flora in other conditions that include lactose intolerance, atopic dermatitis and some other immune-mediated, rheumatologic and allergic diseases.

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There are other problems with that, as well, having to do with the multiple therapies, some actually containing Avastin, that women went on to try after being taken off the studies you so partially discuss.

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