By comparison, the big government study enrolled women and randomly assigned Prempro to one half, and placebo to the other half, resulting in two groups that were indistinguishable from one another.
One problem: The Erbitux trial lacks a control group or a comparison to conventional chemotherapy, so the study does not show clear survival benefit.
One examined 29 patients with Crohn's disease and found that after six months, 21 were considered remitted. (There wasn't a control group for comparison.) The other was study of 54 patients with ulcerative colitis.
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By comparison, the patients in the ENHANCE study comparing Vytorin and Zocor had arteries that were only 0.7 mm thick.
The study does not allow a direct comparison of men and women's stress coping mechanisms, because only men were included.
In QSR Magazine's annual Drive-Thru Study, the only comprehensive industry comparison of customer service at fast-food chains, other restaurants have consistently outperformed McDonald's in those areas.
Davies and Molloy are therefore properly cautious with their conclusions, but nonetheless note that a comparison of the beginning and endpoints for their study, which minimizes the La Nina contribution, still showed a decline in cloud height.
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By comparison, the Women's Health Initiative study, which caused sales of Wyeth 's (nyse: WYE - news - people ) Prempro hormone replacement pill to plummet 40%, is as solid as medical research can be.
The latest trial does not provide a comparison to the current "gold standard, " but "researchers are planning to study combinations of the pill and camptosar as well, " said Hoff.
Data from the World Bank's most recent and hugely comprehensive International Comparison Program study breaks global individual consumption into 11 buckets--from food and clothing to health care and recreation.
The CATT (Comparison of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatments Trials) study, slated for release next week, is sponsored by the National Eye Institute, part of the federal National Institutes of Health.
The study aims to close this information gap and provide a framework for comparison of prevailing practices, in order to pave the way for the development of collaboration and partnership at regional level and beyond.
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