The key point is that there are strict rules about gaining the consent of patients and carers before they take part in a clinical research study - and these rules are taken very seriously indeed.
We just completed a year-long research study on the impact of employee recognition, and there were some surprising results.
For the past five years the University of Minnesota has been furiously trying to beat back the negative publicity generated by the violent suicide of a young man named Dan Markingson enrolled in an AstraZeneca-funded research study.
In that study, researchers looked at the data from two already completed studies, the Vioxx Gastrointestinal Outcomes Research study (VIGOR) and Celecoxib Long-Term Arthritis Safety Study (CLASS), and concluded that both drugs might slightly increase the risk of cardiac events such as heart attack and stroke.
Gates frequently cites research from a decades-long study in Bangladesh as a rationale for family planning.
During the seminar there were some issues discussed of further development and international cooperation focusing on strengthening of scientific-research hydrology potential with application of up-to-date methods of study.
The Alzheimer's Research Trust, which co-funded the study, also called for further investigation.
So, enter the Cambridge Project for Existential Risk, a joint initiative between a philosopher, a scientist and a software entrepreneur, wants to create a multi-disciplinary research center dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks around the spread of robotic technology.
The Director-General's comments were in response to the research study conducted jointly by New York University and Bahcesehir University which revealed high level of post-traumatic stress and severe depression amongst the children in the refugee camps.
If a top-ranking university like Yale had been willing to truly back the academic study of anti-Semitism, it would have empowered students and faculty alike to research and study the subject.
And researchers from the University of Colorado, Denver, are planning a high-altitude research trip to Bolivia with 24 study participants.
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The conference will be an opportunity for interested scientists to share their ideas and establish long-term collaborations for study and research on Historic Hydraulic Structures.
The United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research study on global taxation issued on November 15, 2004, saying it was critical to mobilize additional "resources" for internationally agreed development goals.
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The research is a good and descriptive small-scale study, said Jon Vernick, an associate professor and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, but it also is a good reminder that public health experts need to do more of this kind of research.
One study found that federal energy-research spending became more productive when it switched from large-scale demonstration projects to lots of smaller-scale technologies.
In fact, a Pew Research study showed that the number of 18-29 year olds buying cellphones actually fell by 3% between 2002 and 2004, while all other age groups grew.
At a conference I suffered through a presentation about an NSF-funded study of the ethics of nanotechnology research.
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"The record, in short, is one of careful analysis at every stage, a continued commitment to research and prompt and decisive action in response to clinical-study results, " the scientists say.
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.
The research, from the government-funded Women's Health Study, included 39, 876 women 45 years and older who were free of COPD before they were randomly assigned to take a placebo, vitamin E supplements (600 IU every other day) or aspirin (100 mg per day), either alone or in combination.
The adults in the chocolate study were initially screened for separate research on cholesterol-lowering drugs.
"No one has ever studied these players before, " said Dr. Lee Nadler, dean for clinical and translational research at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the proposed study.
They were employed by Mass-Observation, a social research organization founded in 1937 to study the everyday lives of ordinary people, who were also invited to participate in surveys and keep diaries.
Like much of the previous research on coffee, the study was based on survey data -- in this case, a single questionnaire distributed in the mid-1990s -- that may provide an incomplete picture of the participants' overall health and lifestyle.
"It takes thousands of years for supernova remnants to evolve, but with this nova we've watched the same kinds of changes over just a few days, " said Kent Wood, a co-author on the Science study from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.
"Thus, E-4 appears as a risk factor for both heart disease and Alzheimer's disease, two major causes of mortality and morbidity at advanced ages, " Francois Schachter and his colleagues at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms, a genetic-research center in Paris, conclude in a report.
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Anti-smoking groups criticised the study, which relied on research funded by the tobacco industry.
In fact, there are more ways today to discover new books than ever before, according to a new study from Bowker, a book-focused market research firm.
Seeking to help donation programs improve and target their outreach campaigns, Anteby and his research team decided to study the individual factors that might influence co-donation by married couples.
Professor Paul Cicilitira is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at St Thomas' Hospital in London and has been leading a three-year study, funded by leading medical charity Action Research, to look specifically at coeliac disease and inheritance patterns.
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