The team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine say larger trials with a long follow up are needed to judge how useful the test might be in everyday practice.
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The connection between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease is by now so well established that inflammatory markers like CRP, while they may prove useful to test and treat, will not take the place of cholesterol any time soon, says Alan Daugherty, PhD, the director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Kentucky.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that they didn't find home test kits useful for detecting lead because in their test, they found too many false negatives and a few false positive test results.
The new test may be useful in combination with the exercise test, he said.
And if combined with a number of palaeo-wind records gathered from around the continent, it could provide a useful tool to test climate computer models, they believe.
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HGS, gets human antibodies out of the mice and, if these prove useful in a test tube, makes human monoclonals directly from XenoMouse for further testing as potential drugs.
As one factor among many, test scores can provide useful data, but as the primary means of evaluating teachers test scores are too unreliable.
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We have learned a lot from this test that will be useful in the future.
The study does not test whether this information was useful enough to allow investors to make sufficient profit trading on it to justify the extra risk.
Certainly, microwaves would work: a test carried out in 2008 transmitted useful amounts of microwave energy between two Hawaiian islands 148km (92 miles) apart, so penetrating the 100km of the atmosphere would be a doddle.
In order to be useful, Tautigian says, a prostate cancer test would not only have to test for at least two genes, but both genes would have to predict the likelihood that a patient will develop cancer with similar certainty.
Coke will also test a waste management system that could be useful at future major sporting events and festivals.
It's difficult to say whether this will be that useful in real life, but we'll need to test it out for an extended period to find that out.
That could be very useful to pharmaceutical companies, which now must use dying liver cells to test their drugs.
Apart from the silliness, there is a great deal of useful health advice here, with articles on everything from what to do if your PAP smear test comes back "abnormal" to the health benefits of fennel.
In addition to other possible uses, Patwari wants to conduct research with doctors to test his method as an infant-breathing monitor, and, if it proves useful, develop it as a medical device that would need federal approval.
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For example, an ebook that includes a self assessment or test or a way to ask a question of the author directly is a far more useful tool for the creation of more qualified leads as opposed to simply the mass number of individuals who downloaded the document.
"Of course universities have a useful role to play in deciding what should be tested at A level, but A levels need to test more than just the ability to go to university, " said Dr Bousted.
"If we have to go through a test every week, I don't see a problem with that if it's useful to fight what happened in other sports, " Nadal said at a press conference Saturday ahead of the VTR Open, which starts Monday.
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