Doctors would log on to report findings, and those results could guide how drugs were tested.

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Perhaps decades ago this was a workable system, but now the technical requirements to grasp results and then communicate findings to a lay audience must be an increasing challenge.

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"These initial findings are very encouraging and echo our own results and our conclusion that the impact of urban heat islands on the overall global temperature is minimal, " Jones said in a statement.

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Georgetown stands by the findings and says Lifeway had no complaints until the results came in.

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Some people doubted these findings and felt the Merck trial would overturn these results.

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This is the well-documented tendency of scientists and scientific publications to publish positive findings more often than results showing no effect.

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When the researchers compared the survey findings with the sperm test results they found the link between sedentary lifestyle and low sperm count.

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And the results were so successful that I wanted to quickly share my findings.

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Commenting on the findings, Christian Elger and Florian Mormann, from the University of Bonn medical centre, described the results as "a major milestone... showing for the first time, to our knowledge that prospective seizure prediction is possible".

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"These results are very interesting but this is is a very small study and any interpretation of the findings must be made with caution as we are dealing with the hopes and expectations of patients, " said Dr Virginia Bolton from the assisted conception unit at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

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