Amarin, which makes a new form of fish oil called Vascepa, could have marketing difficulties because doctors will draw comparisons between the niacin story and that for fish oil medicines, which showed benefit in early, open-label studies but have failed in more recent rigorous ones.

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And they threw out other studies like the ones that showed decreases in wintertime deaths because of methodological problems.

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Many have argued that the SSRI drugs are overused, in part due to hyped-up marketing that emphasizes positive studies while downplaying negative ones.

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The grammar schools' case depends mainly on the glowing inspectors' reports that most of them get, and on their exam results: studies show that their pupils do slightly better than equally bright ones in comprehensives.

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Three additional studies presented in the Wednesday briefing examined existing therapies for various cancers and which ones were the most effective.

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Where the studies you rely on and the ones I trust seem to differ is in a basic assuption regarding human economic behavior.

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Studies of British civil servants find that senior ones enjoy better health than their immediate subordinates, who in turn do better than those further down the ladder.

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