As a result of the positive interim analysis, the FAME II independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) has recommended investigators stop patient enrollment in this trial as the DSMB considers it unethical to continue to randomize patients to optimal medical therapy (OMT) alone.

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Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, announced today that an interim analysis of the FAME II trial has found a highly statistically significant reduction in the need for hospital readmission and urgent revascularization when Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR)-guided assessment was used to direct treatment in patients with coronary artery disease.

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According to a 2009 meta-analysis, the risk of type II diabetes goes down with each cup of coffee consumed daily.

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And an analysis of children who had faced extreme hunger after World War II were more likely to develop schizophrenia.

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Kansas City is one of only 15 cities with a population of at least 200, 000 in 1950 that saw substantial population losses since World War II but have rebounded in recent years, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by Jordan Rappaport, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

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Almost 30 years ago, using a series of networked Apple II computers, I started doing research and began writing about divergence analysis.

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To make my point in a different way, let me sketch an analysis of the operation of two kinds of health markets: the one before World War II and the one since then.

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