The Department of Health said the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health study was based on old data.
The scientists tested it using old data for Botswana dating from 1982 to 2002 and found a huge improvement.
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Ten-year-old data protocols did not require keeping every scrap of data and calculation.
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Look for sites that offer ways to import your old data, and if you crave stability, for companies that are profitable and still growing.
In 2001, two respected cardiologists at the Cleveland Clinic published a re-analysis of old data that indicated Vioxx might raise the risk of heart attack.
An article in the August issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reanalyzed old data to suggest that there might be heart problems with both Vioxx and Celebrex.
In addition 128 bit AES encryption provides data protection and in particular can be used to rapidly erase the encryption key so the drive can be repurposed without concern about the old data being accessible.
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It also contains Topol's response, in which he publishes a new analysis of four-year-old data that he says shows a "significant" increase in heart attack and stroke in patients taking Vioxx after as little as six weeks.
That cost one-fifth as much as getting the same data the old way, from mail-in promotions.
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Among the factors that made IBM and EMC Celera's top choice is IBM's experience migrating data from old systems to new ones.
Still, you're going to have to get used to the fact that you can't import old FCP files without data loss-- and don't expect updates for tape-based editing, either.
The probe was technically and legally complex, examining whether a decades-old tradition of releasing data such as job totals and economic growth through a select group of media companies could be manipulated via new technology.
Backup and archiving remain the biggest applications for digital magnetic tape although it is also used as a physical data transport device (as the old saying goes, you can ship more data on tape in a delivery truck over a shorter time than you can send electronically).
Data from the old trials don't mean that new problems couldn't emerge with these still untested treatments.
In fact the UK data was so old that it pre-dated many of the policies introduced to improve the situation.
New data indicates the old vaccine did clear plaque--although whether the medicine actually stopped the deterioration of patients' minds is an open question.
The department said the profile was backdated to 2008 to avoid having to merge data from an old IT system and a new one.
Although he was successful in getting the Egyptian carriers to cooperate, some Egyptians still managed to get online by making international data calls from old-fashioned telephone modem lines.
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Oritavancin has gone through several drugmakers, including InterMune, and was rejected basically because too much of its pivotal data is years old, from before resistant bugs were much of a problem.
Subsequent analysis showed that the lake was 50km wide, 225km long, 500 metres deep, and at least 2m years old though new data presented to the workshop suggest that its age may be closer to 15m years, and that it could even predate the glaciation of Antarctica, which occurred around 40m years ago.
The relationship between impact speed and pedestrian risk of death has been studied previously, but earlier studies based on data from the United States are now several decades old, and more recent studies based on analysis of data from other countries have been limited to cars.
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As you can imagine, with this much at stake, even old Mother Nature has the odd data-set you can refer to.
Topsy, a 5-year-old San Francisco-based Big Data company, has indexed over 200 billion tweets plus other web documents linked from Twitter.
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