Sentences with phrase «despite lack of efficacy»

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Bill Hammond notes the governor signed the mammography bill «despite a lack of evidence about the long - term efficacy of the procedure.»

Despite a lack of rigorous clinical trials to test safety or efficacy, a ban of the treatment by health authorities, and a lack of peer review by the scientific community, the privately funded Stamina Foundation has been using cultured mesenchymal stem cells that have been exposed to putative conditions that favour neuronal differentiation to treat different diseases in severely or terminally ill patients.

Intervention from wealthy non-scientists such as the philanthropist Mary Lasker drove even deeper investment into animal - based vaccines despite growing evidence of their lack of safety and efficacy.

«Despite the increased quality risks and the lack of safety and efficacy data for non-FDA regulated custom - compounded bioidentical hormones, their use by menopausal women is higher than expected and appears to be continuing to grow,» said lead researcher JoAnn Pinkerton, MD, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville.

There is evidence that rTMS is safe and not associated with any adverse events, but given the variability in technique and outcome reporting that prevented meta - analysis, the evidence for efficacy of rTMS for seizure reduction is still lacking despite reasonable evidence that it is effective at reducing epileptiform discharges.

In fact, Klassen et al. (2011) noted that there is a lack of evidence that links teachers» self - efficacy to student outcomes, despite the commonly held belief by researchers that this relationship exists.

Despite a lack of faith in the results of primary assessments, 64 per cent of secondary teachers said their school created ability sets by using KS2 data, raising further questions about the efficacy of ability groupings.

Yet despite anecdotal accounts of their value, there is a lack of empirical research on their efficacy.

Despite the fact that Hispanic (eighth grade) adolescents have the highest lifetime drug - use prevalence rates across all major illicit drugs (except amphetamines)(Johnston, O'Malley, Bachman, & Schulenberg, 2005), and Hispanic high school students have the highest rates of unprotected sex at last intercourse (CDC - P, 2004b) compared to African American and non-Hispanic Whites, research on the efficacy of drug abuse and HIV prevention programs for Hispanics is lacking (González - Castro et al., 2003).