But the general public needs to understand that closing these towers without a proper and detailed safety analysis has risks for the communities surrounding these airports, as well.
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This is less comforting than it sounds, because the usual method for doing a safety analysis is to include all the deaths that occurred in patients who were assigned to take a drug, not just those that are clearly linked to a treatment, in order to avoid missing anything.
Dr. Sharfstein supported me in my request to present my independent analysis of the Avandia safety data to the committee.
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In 2005 and 2006, GSK secretly conducted an analysis of the cardiovascular safety of Avandia and concluded that the drug increased the risk of heart attacks and related events by about 30%.
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In 2010, the European Food Safety Authority published a report outlining analysis of 612 rice samples from the EU, finding average levels of just a few tens of parts per billion.
Debbie: The last analysis of the Health and Safety Executive's statistics clearly showed that 26% of the people who died of carbon monoxide poisoning had not had their appliances serviced.
Writing in an editorial that accompanies the study, Scott Grundy of the University of Texas, Southwestern, pointed out that the FDA had already published its own detailed analysis of Crestor's safety, in response to a petition from the public advocacy group Public Citizen, arguing that the drug should be taken off the market.
On Tuesday, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said it was conducting a chemical analysis of internal short circuiting and thermal damage of the battery that caught fire in Boston.
Sir Roger said that despite safety assurances over Leeds General Infirmary, the full analysis of the data called for the children's heart surgery unit to remain under supervision.
As a result of the positive interim analysis, the FAME II independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) has recommended investigators stop patient enrollment in this trial as the DSMB considers it unethical to continue to randomize patients to optimal medical therapy (OMT) alone.
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It found an array of health and safety issues at the Foxconn facilities such as inadequate risk analysis and missing systems for protecting workers from excessive heat.
Karas , director of the center for preventative cardiology at Tufts University and who headed up the analysis, says his study actually reaffirms the safety of Lipitor, Zocor and Pravachol, known collectively as statins.
When safety questions were raised about Avandia, we needed an objective analysis of all the trials, published and unpublished.
The FAA will approve the redesign only if the company successfully completes all required tests and analysis to demonstrate the new design complies with federal safety requirements.
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Harvard's Eugene Braunwald, one of the most well regarded cardiologists in the country, said that an analysis of the data hadn't given a safety committee reason to stop a large study of Vytorin and Zocor that he is running, called IMPROVE-IT.
The technique of pooling disparate clinical trials, called meta-analysis, has become the most powerful weapon of drug safety researchers.
Academics say the decision is economically illogical because small-scale safety improvements offer best value for money on the sort of financial analysis demanded by the Treasury.
So we are very confident that there will be no compromise in safety, and that has been kind of baked into all the analysis that we did.
The fundamental flaws in John Tudor and Sons' hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) plan, which delivers food safety, were also missed, he said.
He writes the data in the Peto analysis should only have been made available to the committees monitoring the safety of the patients in SHARP and IMPROVE-IT.
But a meta-analysis of 23 studies by Karl Hanson of Canada's department of public safety found that psychological therapy was associated with a 43% drop in recidivism.
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