For a case study in the positive power of regret consider the case of Tom Cox.
The feds alleged the company touted one positive study of Celexa in adolescents, while not mentioning the fact that another big study in adolescents had failed to show any effect.
Flying Dog advertises its status as the favoured drink of the celebrated radical journalist Hunter S Thompson, and a 2012 study found a positive correlation between the concentration of microbreweries in a state and its likelihood to vote for Barack Obama.
Certainly one would agree that the quantity and the quality of the safety data and the involvement of the FDA in the planning of the LibiGel safety study all are positive indications for LibiGel.
Morever, only 4 percent of controls in the Mikovits study tested positive for XMRV, while 67 percent of patients tested positive.
Certainly one would agree that the long-term nature of the study is positive for LibiGel.
As a positive study submitted to the European Parliament by University of Duisburg-Essen professor Ansgar Belke shows, using gold collateral to raise cheaper loans is hardly new to sovereign governments either.
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In a research note released Tuesday, Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) biotech analyst May-Kin Ho wrote that positive results in this study could double the number of patients eligible for the therapy to 700, 000 people.
"This is a completely new way of treating HER2-positive breast cancer, " said Kimberly Blackwell, the study's lead researcher and a professor of medicine at Duke University.
It will be presenting a combination study of two of its antiviral drugs at the AASLD, and if it comes out positive it will start a follow-up trial.
Previous studies have shown that quick, insightful solutions tend to be more correct than analytic solutions (at least, for the types of tasks in the study), and other studies have shown that a positive mood enhances overall cognitive performance.
The study found there was a positive link between good information technology and national test results, of 0.07 under the Spearman Rank Correlation statistical measurement system.
One paper published in 2008 concluded that "the idea that pleasant weather increases people's positive mood in general is not supported by the findings of this study".
Not a big gain, but an interesting opportunity to watch the impact of an expected, but positive, NEJM study.
This study is interesting because on the one hand it means that the positive impacts of school choice on grades cannot be entirely interpreted as higher quality of choice schools.
According to a 2010 study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, the ratio of positive to negative evaluations is twenty-five hundred to one.
However, the positive trends in the study are likely to encourage other companies developing new, more powerful versions of Tricor.
As early as age 3, children have what researchers call a "positivity bias" a tendency to see themselves as smart regardless of their abilities, and to exaggerate positive traits in others, says a 2010 study in the journal Child Development Perspectives.
Celldex CEO Anthony Marucci has said previously that a meaningful and positive response rate in the study would be 12% to 15% with a progression-free survival of greater than 12 weeks.
In the case of Yoga, a recent pilot study at Indiana University showed some positive results in using yoga as a follow-up to physical rehabilitation therapy for elderly stroke victims.
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The number of muscle fibers that tested positive for dystrophin increased 47% in patients who had been receiving eteplirsen since the beginning of the study and 38% in the patients who started on placebo and switched to eteplirsen after 24 weeks.
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Now, a study has uncovered a third part of the brain that, at least in mice, shows positive signs of neurogenesis: the hypothalamus, associated with body temperature, metabolism, sleep, hunger, thirst and a few other critical functions.
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Randolph Barker, lead study author and professor of management at the VCU School of Business, said dogs can make a positive difference in the workplace.
Just what proportion of trials are kept under wraps is unclear - one of Donald Rumsfeld's known unknowns - but a 2010 study from the National Institute of Health Research suggests that half are never published, and those with positive results twice as likely to get into print.
Nearly half of the 90 beverages from soda fountain machines in one area in Virginia tested positive for coliform bacteria -- which could indicate possible fecal contamination, according to a study published in the January issue of International Journal of Food Microbiology.
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