The researchers suggest a "small but significant" negative effect of 4% linked to the combined effects of smoking and impaired lung function - itself linked to smoking.
Phthalates have been shown to affect the development of the male reproductive system in lab animals, and a few small studies suggest they may be linked to subtle effects in the reproductive organs of infant boys.
Gregg Bloche, a Georgetown University medical ethicist, warned of the need to manage the downside of "race-based therapeutics"--and predicted that it was only a matter of time before race was linked to the effects of other drugs.
Then we did what social scientists tend to do: We built statistical models that linked potential causes and effects.
They require additional spending on accessories like 3D glasses, and have been linked to unpleasant side effects like strokes and epileptic seizures in some viewers.
This new strand of research is linked to recent work on the effects of trade on wages, and especially on wage inequality.
Even though BPA has been linked to so many harmful health effects, it is still used in American products -- most notably in infant and children's feeding products.
Wariness at the FDA is understandable: In four years it has endured the embarrassment of the recall of ten drugs it had approved as safe and effective after they were linked to rare but potentially deadly side effects.
Cannon replies that ibuprofen and naproxen weren't used in his study because they can have other effects on the heart that are not linked to Cox-2.
In healthy people who are not being treated for cancer, antioxidants can have beneficial effects by sopping up the free radicals linked to aging and other diseases.
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Climate change effects on groundwater resources are, therefore, closely linked to other global change drivers, including population growth, urbanization and land-use change, coupled with other socio-economic and political trends.
Big effects can translate into big tests: If a specific number variant is linked to sufficiently high possibility of autism, that variant could serve as an identifiable marker for the condition.
Dr Siegfried believes the hormone may exacerbate the effects of exposure to tobacco smoke - and to other substances known to be linked to lung cancer such as the gas radon.
All national web-portals on medicines would be linked to the EU's "Eudravigilance" database, which contains information about medicines and side effects.
MLN4760 is a sign that the genomics approach--in which genes linked to disease are located and used to design drugs that are effective in low doses, without side effects--actually works.
Bextra, a drug that was similar to Vioxx, was linked to heart problems by one such analysis and has since been pulled from the market for serious skin side effects.
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