It emerged in December that the authorities in the United States had recommended withholding from general publication the detailed results and methods of the study, as well as those of a second one led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (This also created transmissible strains, albeit less virulent ones.) Both studies had received grants from America's National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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And they threw out other studies like the ones that showed decreases in wintertime deaths because of methodological problems.
Many have argued that the SSRI drugs are overused, in part due to hyped-up marketing that emphasizes positive studies while downplaying negative ones.
Especially when it comes to resveratrol, which has been the subject of numerous rodent studies but very few human ones.
The imaging studies are expected to be the ones needed to get the drug approved.
Where the studies you rely on and the ones I trust seem to differ is in a basic assuption regarding human economic behavior.
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.
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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But the very clinical studies Glaxo is using as its defense are the ones that Nissen says inspired him to look into Avandia's heart side effects in the first place.
Studies show that state companies use capital less efficiently than private ones, and grow more slowly.
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.
This means attempting to identify every relevant trial of a given question (including studies that have never been published), choosing the best ones using clearly defined criteria for quality, and combining the results in a statistically valid way.
Three additional studies presented in the Wednesday briefing examined existing therapies for various cancers and which ones were the most effective.
Previous studies have shown that human sweat contains about 350 different aromatic compounds and determining which ones play significant roles will be a great undertaking.
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Studies show that, if anything, older, more experienced pilots have fewer accidents than do younger ones.
Previous studies with macaques have demonstrated that the animals will gaze longer at symmetrical faces than they do at asymmetric ones, which could be interpreted as the monkeys finding such faces more attractive.
Mainly because law firms reward partners for bringing in new clients instead of retaining the ones they've got, says Joyce Sterling, a professor at the University of Denver College of Law who studies gender bias in the law.
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