Also, as a study by management consultant KPMG shows, Indian retailers have also made big mistakes - and the inability to compete with the neighbourhood stores is one of them.
If the result holds up, this represents about 1 additional cure for every 9 patients treated, says University of Miami critical care specialist Daniel Kett, a study investigator and Pfizer consultant.
Study leader Dr Martin Wildman, consultant in respiratory medicine at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, said in an averagely-sized hospital the decision to admit a patient with COPD to intensive care probably happens once a week - or two to three times a week in winter.
Dr Nick Thompson, a consultant gastroenterologist, carried out a study of 250 Crohn's patients and found only three who could be classed as vitamin D deficient.
The city hired the consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff in early 2011 to study the merits of extending the subway, shortly after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie canceled the planned "Access to the Region's Core" cross-river tunnel project, which was a blow to those who believe the region is hampered by the limited capacity for trains crossing the Hudson between Manhattan and the suburbs.
Consultant Paula Owen hopes the 12-month study will encourage people to change their behaviour and reduce their environmental impacts.
Dr Irshaad Ebrahim, a consultant sleep physician, told the BBC the study relected just how hectic children's lives were in the information age.
In short, the GAO study revealed that one form of industry abuse alone, pension consultant conflicts, did indeed undermine pension investment performance.
The hope was born last year, with the publication of a study by Ron Brakke, a Dallas-based animal-health consultant.
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Dr Sam Oddie, a consultant in the neonatal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary, is leading the study.
Researcher Dr Robert Swingler, a consultant neurologist at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, said the study showed that over a 30 month period the drug would only prevent one MS attack in every three patients.
However, in a separate study of more than 36, 000 patients' records, Mr Richard Sainsbury, a consultant at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, found that delays between referral by a GP and initial treatment had no significant effect on survival rates.
Sanjay Kaul, a cardiologist at Cedars Sinai Hospital in L.A. who has been an FDA consultant, says the FDA should now require all cholesterol medicines to either do a big study showing they prevent heart problems before approval or only grant conditional approval and then demand the big study.
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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.
Mr Chinegwundoh, who is a consultant urologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, one of the hospitals taking part in the study, said he and other consultants had long noticed how over-represented black prostate cancer patients were compared to their numbers in the general population.
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