Relatively few students are enrolled in voucher schemes, and studies of them are controversial because these are mostly self-selecting samples.
However, two new economic studies cast them in a more positive light.
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FitzGerald, who is one of the world's best guides to the intricacies of prostaglandins, began calling for more scrutiny of Celebrex and Vioxx after doing studies on them in humans that were funded by the drugmakers themselves.
Researchers said that previous studies had led them to expect that a high-protein diet would lead to lower weight gain.
Turns out that doctors have been using it according to their own habits and have not had any substantial studies to direct them.
Animal studies have shown them to affect neurological and reproductive behaviour.
He says there is an enormous amount of scientific research that supports low-carb diets - particularly studies which find them superior to low-fat, calorie-restricted diets for weight loss - and the internet shows "first hand accounts from countless individuals who have transformed their health for the better using low-carbohydrate eating".
Studies, some of them funded by the wireless industry, have produced contradictory findings.
If you know of any good studies, please mention them in the comments.
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While we need to do these kinds of studies, having done them, we need to assess them soberly and unsparingly.
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Doctors need time to make well-informed decisions about drugs, and data take months to plug through the pipeline that turns them into studies in medical journals.
But the result is still surprising, because other recent studies, some of them even larger, have concluded that vitamin supplements do not provide any significant health benefits.
Some groups pushing the restrictionist agenda -- such as NUMBERS USA, the Federation for American Immigration Reform and the Center for Immigration Studies, all of them started with the help of nativist John Tanton -- want to limit legal immigration as well.
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The e-learning programme is founded on the basic and practical principle that the use of the internet as a learning tool not only creates anonymity and thus dismantles the psychological barriers that prevent illiterate adults from resuming their studies but also enables them to balance their work, family and learning commitments by learning at home at whatever time is suitable to them.
They were SO GRATEFUL, so eager to learn and such quick studies that I found teaching them immensely rewarding.
First, the FDA should add warnings proactively, and make drug companies do safety studies to get rid of them.
As well as helping them complete their studies, such skills become invaluable once they enter the ranks of senior management.
He studies the animals by watching them run on a tiny treadmill-like apparatus or recording the way they manipulate their bodies when they fall off vertical surfaces.
Far more patients suffer because they never find out what is wrong with them, according to studies the authors cite.
And it would give the FDA the power to fine companies to force them to do safety studies or change the labels of drugs.
Question: can social science researchers do more gender-based studies of male characteristics that keep them from making deals in the first place and deals that last in the second?
For four weeks starting April 20, Mayo Clinic researchers were in Nepal taking physiological measurements of 10 climbers' hearts and lungs, as well as conducting sleep studies and cognitive performance tests on them.
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Mr Gove warned that certain universities such as Cambridge, the London School of Economics and others had told prospective students that taking "softer" A-levels such as media studies and dance would count against them.
Studies covering Eastern European migrants found them to be less likely to claim benefits than other migrant groups or the general population, the report said, adding that of those who claim benefits now, the majority receive child benefits.
Christine Russell of Boston University reviewed 300 studies and found that 78 percent of them concluded that bilingual education was no better or actually worse for English learners than doing nothing!
"There's been more studies that find that if you introduce them early it may actually prevent food allergy, " said David Fleischer, co-author of the article and a pediatric allergist at National Jewish Health in Denver.
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According to Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the safest conclusion is that for them things are basically unchanged.
Previous work by Dr Ioannidis, on six highly cited observational studies, showed that conclusions from five of them were later refuted.
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