This randomized, controlled study showed that Medicaid coverage generated no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes in the first 2 years, but it did increase use of health care services, raise rates of diabetes detection and management, lower rates of depression, and reduce financial strain.

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In this large, randomized study, Erbitux shrank colon cancer tumors by at least half in 23% of patients when used with chemotherapy, and 11% when used alone.

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Previous observational studies have also suggested that aspirin could be an effective tool against cancer, but this is the first randomized study to test the hypothesis directly.

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It was gradually replaced by lumpectomy and whole-breast irradiation after several long-term, randomized trials showed this treatment was as effective as removing the entire breast in preventing cancer recurrence and prolonging survival.

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Despite some limitations of trial design, including the open label nature of the study, RECORD remains the only randomized trial of cardiovascular outcomes for Avandia at this time.

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But more recent randomized trials have failed to show a hint of this benefit.

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And then this guy named Rajeev Motwani and others started to push the use of randomized algorithms, not as a weird corner case, but the way to do algorithms.

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Twitter's own systems were hacked earlier this year, with attackers gaining access to usernames as well as encrypted and randomized passwords for about 250, 000 users.

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Since the particulates travel great distances before they are washed out, even this small dose is not a function of distance from the power plant, but is randomized geographically.

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