Most of the increase since the last 2009 study is the result of re-evaluating shale gas plays along the Gulf Coast Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain areas.
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In a three-year study of high-risk women, biopsies were performed as a result of sonograms 7.8% of the time in the first year and 5% in the second and third years.
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In a potentially damaging result, a long-delayed study showed Merck and Schering-Plough's expensive Vytorin had no benefit on the buildup of artery plaque over the older drug Zocor, even though Vytorin cut bad cholesterol 40% more.
It will only be as a result of having a systematic large-scale study that we will be able to give accurate comments as to whether or not this does arise as a result of cloning or not.
It had been heavily criticised by teaching unions and some groups, especially those involved in the arts, who said it would narrow the curriculum and that fewer young people would study art and music and other non-Bacc subjects as a result of it.
One surprising result of the new study was what factors were predictors of high-risk impact.
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The global rankings are the result of two studies - the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).
As a result, the Women's Health Initiative (a large, long-term study of the effectiveness of oestrogen in preventing osteoporosis) is now looking at whether the hormone can prevent Alzheimer's as well.
Bayer and biotech Onyx Pharmaceuticals announced a devastatingly disappointing result for their cancer pill Nexavar: They stopped a study of the drug in non-small cell lung cancer early because there was no chance it would reach its main goal of proving Nexavar extends patients' lives in that disease.
Furthermore, landmark studies such as the Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial (LRC-CPPT) and the Scandanavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) showed that lowering LDL cholesterol has the direct result of reducing cardiovascular (CV) deaths.
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