In the study, 1, 369 of the men had prostate cancer, 241 had advanced disease and 162 died from it.
Simdax, a heart failure drug from Abbott Laboratories and Orion Pharmaceutical, failed to prove it extended survival compared to an older treatment in a study of 1, 327 patients.
In one study of 1, 740 men with high cholesterol, Scottish researchers found that men with high levels of the Lp-PLA2 enzyme had twice the risk of heart attacks, an effect that was statistically independent of their cholesterol levels.
In a study of more than 1, 500 heart patients in two countries, the Icelandic gene-hunting firm found that defects in a crucial inflammation-causing gene nearly doubled the risk of heart attack and boosted the risk of stroke by 67%.
Perhaps the most surprising statistic to turn up in this study is the meager 1.4% real growth in earnings per share, a number Arnott and Bernstein calculated from data going back to 1871.
About 70% of women and 57% of men believe an invisible barrier--a glass ceiling--prevents women from getting ahead in business, according to a study of 1, 200 executives in eight countries, including the U.S., Australia, Austria and the Philippines.
In one study, researchers tracked 1.5 million people aged between 35 and 84, and found that, in the six months after losing a spouse, the risk of dying from a heart attack increased by 20 to 35%.
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Researchers using a new systematic analysis technique identified faults in many more regions of DNA in the 1, 000 patients involved in the study.
In addition, 3% of secondary heads had experienced physical violence in the past 12 months, up from 1% in the 2009 study.
They made their discovery, just reported in the Journal of Proteome Research, by tapping into a long-term, continuing study that started in 1995 with 1, 077 non-demented and otherwise healthy people aged between 60 and 90.
Soll of Duke, See ran a research project over two-and-half-years that examined advice-taking in some 1, 500 study participants.
In the 1, 040-patient study, patients with milder disease had a 42% lower reduction in how fast they declined on one version of the ADAS-cog test.
But it is sheer ignorance that contributes most to the spread of HIV and AIDS. In a study of policemen in Khartoum state in 2005, only 1.9% of those interviewed knew that a condom could protect them against HIV.
Those results were among the key findings in a study, commissioned by Oracle, of 1, 342 business executives from a companies in a wide range of industries in 18 countries across the world.
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Smoking peaked in 1996 with 21 percent of eighth graders saying they had used cigarettes (defined as having smoked in the previous 30-day period) and dropped to 7.1 percent in 2007, the study showed.
The academic institutions with the smartest students in the Lumosity study were MIT (1), Harvard (2) and Stanford (3).
The notion of safeguarding is important because a recent study found that 1 in 9 (11%) of handguns distributed into legal channels in 1996 were found to have been used in crime by 2000.
The number of Scottish students hoping to study in Scotland is down by just 1.1%.
The first trial will study alternatives to transfemoral approaches in 1, 000 patients considered ineligible for aortic valve surgery.
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Over the course of 11 years, 169 people in the study died from heart disease and 1, 066 needed hospital treatment - and they were more likely to have been meat and fish eaters than vegetarians.
Delta, at 27.1% availability in the study, says it has made major improvements in availability over the past year, driven largely by its low standing in the IdeaWorks research last year and coverage by this column.
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The benefit was statistically significant, but the fact that the trial wasn't designed specifically to show it and the small size of the study (Taxotere was tested in 1, 000 men) increase the risk that the result is a false positive.
The new study, published in Pediatrics, followed over 1, 000 kids born in 1972 and 1973.
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Another study suggests that more than 1 in 5 customers would use this feature.
The researchers said side effects were mild in the study, whose duration for participants averaged 1.2 years.
The study asked 1, 000 adults in Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States about the accessibility, affordability and quality of their national health-care systems.
In an Aug. 1 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal citing an egregiously flawed, biased study, agency head Margaret Hamburg claimed that FDA is outperforming their European counterpart in drug approvals.
The U.S. ranked 19th out of the 30 largest countries in the study, with 429 deaths per million adults due to eating too much sodium (representing 1 in 10 U.S. deaths due to heart-related causes).
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The Kaiser study looked at 1, 063 women in the early stage of pregnancy.
According to the Luxembourg Income Study, the typical American worker puts in 1, 820 hours over the course of a year.
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