He was also the lead author of the influential (but controversial) 1999 New England Journal of Medicine DECREASE study on the use of bisoprolol during vascular surgery.
But every study on the use of fish oil for improving mental health comes with the warning not to overinterpret the findings, because the truth is, we simply do not yet know enough to make sweeping assertions in favor of megadosing on fish oil.
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The interpretation of the evidence obtained in this study, based on the use of advanced analytical methods, supports the hypothesis of an intentional therapeutic treatment, but alternative post-mortem practices are not ruled out.
Also on Thursday, the CDC released a separate study on overall contraceptive use.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it will study the use of portable electronic devices on airplanes, and it is fair to say the airline industry is wary.
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Pentagon officials already are concerned that if the military rejects the Baker panel's suggestions, conservatives on Capitol Hill will use the study as a lever to push for legislation banning mixed-gender basic training altogether.
It is also funding a International Association of Chiefs of Police study on best practice in use of the weapons.
"Having these ways to look into the brain gives us a tool that we can then use to study the effects of music on the growth and development of the brain, " says Professor John Iversen of the Institute of Neural Computation at the University of California San Diego.
Scientists have known for a long time that aerosols cool climate by reflecting sunlight and making clouds brighter, but the new study is the first to use a global model to estimate the net effects on plant carbon intake resulting from this type of atmospheric pollution.
The study is based on two nationwide online surveys: among 511 13- to 17-year-olds who use the Internet at least occasionally, and another among 500 parents of 13- to 17-year- olds who access the Internet.
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Steven Nissen, the chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and head of the American College of Cardiology, will present one key study that will use ultrasound probes to measure the effect of torcetrapib on plaque in the coronary arteries at the ACC meeting in New Orleans next March.
He left a note to send his brain for use in the ongoing study of the effect of concussions and head trauma on depression and suicide.
The Danish study is prospective in nature, which distinguishes it from most other studies on the health effects of cell phone use, which were case-control studies and enrolled subjects diagnosed with brain tumors and a comparison group of subjects who were free of brain tumors in order to compare reported cell phone usage in the two groups.
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In his study they tend to use terms which are not in themselves abusive, but take on an extra dimension when the group in question is stigmatised.
That is the opening paragraph to an article I wrote just the other day on Social Media Today re: a case study article about Atlantic Station, one of the biggest outdoor mixed use malls in the entire country, and how they are seeing the fruits of their engagement labor and then some.
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Use of the morning-after pill in the US is on the rise, a trend driven largely by wider use among younger women, a major government study has found.
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