There had been a lot of forums and papers published, she says, but the field had been handicapped by a tendency on the part of drug companies to approach the problem on a study-by-study basis, often not following up with communities after the work is done.
Indeed that, to a lesser extent, can be a problem for any study of a human network.
To give you an idea of how widespread the problem is, a new study to be published in the Journal of Finance and Quantitative Analysis finds that option volume in a specific stock begins to surge three days before unannounced analyst upgrades or downgrades of a company.
That could be due to a problem with the study, or it could be Zetia didn't work as expected.
The subjects of the study were asked to solve a particular problem-solving task previously used in other psychology studies researching problem solving.
Later that year, a second study in patients with a heart valve problem also failed to show a benefit.
He wants to see an immediate reduction in pesticide use until the effects are better understood, and is pressing for the formation of a European Union environment unit to study the problem.
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At a briefing Monday, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy Pamela Olson said President George W. Bush has asked the Treasury to study the AMT problem and come up with a permanent fix to be proposed in next year's budget.
The problem, according to a recent study and survey by Jennifer Lawless of American University and Richard Fox of Loyola Marymount University, is that so few choose to run.
While Muslim advocacy organizations argue that honor killings are a misnomer stigmatizing Muslims for what is simply domestic violence, a problem that has nothing to do with religion, Phyllis Chesler, who just completed a study of more than 50 instances of North American honor killings, says the evidence suggest otherwise.
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Small problem: According to a fascinating new study from Deloitte, over the last 40 years the return on assets has fallen 75%.
C. bought a database of subprime loans from a company called Loan Performance in order to study the problem more closely, something that, apparently, no other government regulator had thought to do.
Later, I hear the multibillion-dollar company uses the work I did to fix the problem with the first product as a case study in how to do this sort of work.
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The problem with this study is that it applies to a very small universe.
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Over the border, Northern Ireland, which has a population of 1.7m, offers a valuable case-study in how to resolve an entrenched terrorist problem.
The problem: it is easy to do a small study in a few animals or a few people, and reach some optimistic conclusion that can be spun into good marketing copy.
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And VEGF-Trap seemed to cause fewer bowel perforations, a big problem in the earlier Avastin study.
To get around this potential problem, the University of Pennsylvania study only examined studies without a washout period.
It was not a problem that affected Manuel Aguilar who had moved to the US to study and then went on to work in the financial markets.
People who spent at least four hours per day watching TV, playing video games, or using a computer for fun were more than twice as likely as those who kept their recreational "screen time" under two hours to experience a heart attack, stroke, or other serious cardiovascular problem, the study found.
These are all far from the absolute ban on copying that patents provide, and would solve the problem facing researchers who must isolate a patented gene sequence in order to study it.
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This posed a problem for one study in which doctors gave either Natrecor or a placebo to 237 emergency-room patients and followed them for a month.
Fish oil capsules failed to prevent flare-ups of atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm problem, in a large study in 2010.
But Professor Philip James, of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, said it was a "stupid" and "pathetic" response to the problem.
Another problem for Glaxo: a study from a rival contradicts one analysis Glaxo is using to defend Avandia.
One study on gambling addiction finds that living within 80km of a casino makes someone twice as likely to become a problem gambler.
The war in Afghanistan is far from finished, according to a recent study of the situation on the ground, and the US aid establishment may be tackling the problem from some fundamentally unsound approaches.
According to a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, just 3 percent of the long-run fiscal problem is due to the ARRA. The rest of this yawning gap is due to projected rises in spending on entitlement programs, primarily Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
One big problem: Hospital patients may get the wrong drug one time out of five, according to a study by Auburn University.
One problem: The Erbitux trial lacks a control group or a comparison to conventional chemotherapy, so the study does not show clear survival benefit.
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