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But they've been hampered by somewhat skeptical physicians who still aren't sure that the drugs are worth their price (their topline costs are around $ 14,000 per treatment course); part of the problem is that it's unclear whether or not those dramatic cholesterol reductions actually translate into broader health outcomes like a reduced risk of stroke or heart attack in heart disease patients.

«While we are disappointed CheckMate - 026 did not meet its primary endpoint in this broad patient population, we remain committed to improving patient outcomes through our comprehensive development program, including the ongoing Phase III CheckMate - 227 study exploring the potential of the combination of Opdivo plus [our other cancer immunotherapy] Yervoy for PD - L1 positive patients, and Opdivo plus Yervoy, or Opdivo plus chemotherapy in PD - L1 negative patients,» he added.

«The language in the ruling is quite broad and if there's some other public policy objective that a provincial government has in mind and restricting trade is really just an incidental outcome, then it's OK,» he said.

But the deadline for the Iran negotiations — ostensibly set for June 30 — is only a week away and the outcome could have broad ramifications for the oil market, both in the immediate aftermath and over the long - term.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

In fact, we've looked at a series of scenarios (assuming a two - year settlement period) and arrived at a broad range of outcomes.

Similarly, in a broader portfolio context, retaining some exposure to the duration factor (meaning sensitivity to interest - rate changes) can help to provide more stable outcomes.

It is too early to tell, however, whether these auction outcomes are representative of the broader market and, given the seasonal pause in the real estate market over summer, whether they have continued into 2004.

Our goal is to highlight the experiences of those who invest in alternatives — including which strategies they use to seek specific outcomes — to build broader understanding of this asset class.

Trump could also order new limits on Chinese investment in the United States or raise tariffs unilaterally — a likely violation of U.S. commitments to the World Trade Organization — pending the outcome of a broader investigation into Beijing's alleged failure to protect foreign companies» intellectual property rights, analysts say.

In their November 2016 paper entitled «Applying a Systematic Investment Process to Distributive Portfolios: A 150 Year Study Demonstrating Enhanced Outcomes Through Trend Following», Jon Robinson, Brandon Langley, David Childs, Joe Crawford and Ira Ross compare retirement portfolio performances for variations of the following three strategies that may hold a broad stock market index, a 10 - year government bond index or cash (3 - month government bills) in the U.S., UK or JapaIn their November 2016 paper entitled «Applying a Systematic Investment Process to Distributive Portfolios: A 150 Year Study Demonstrating Enhanced Outcomes Through Trend Following», Jon Robinson, Brandon Langley, David Childs, Joe Crawford and Ira Ross compare retirement portfolio performances for variations of the following three strategies that may hold a broad stock market index, a 10 - year government bond index or cash (3 - month government bills) in the U.S., UK or Japain the U.S., UK or Japan:

If there were a broad set of initial conditions consistent with the development of complex structures and a thin scattering of islands of life here and there, then yes, this would be a scenario in which life could be regarded as a random outcome.

Still, in their broad outlines, these two interpretations of the course of the human pilgrimage and its outcome can be characterized and contrasted.

This happy outcome provides an occasion to examine the broad sweep of Boff's writings — not only those that got him in trouble.

Subsequent research on the political influence of the religious broad - casters indicates that they were not a major influence in the actual election outcome.

This is true of developmental as well as cross-cultural psychology, in that the basic research strategy is to search for the influence of broad classes of experience (e.g., culture, SES, age, gender) that influence broad classes of individual outcome (e.g., IQ, personality, cognitive level).

Perinatal events can result in associated longer term health and broader societal costs, as shown by the size of damages paid in obstetric litigation cases, which represent a substantial cost to the NHS.27 Follow - up over weeks or longer to monitor recovery, or a future assessment of the outcomes for mothers and babies at a later date, would act as a vehicle for estimating costs and consequences beyond the perinatal period and shed more light on long term cost effectiveness.

A broader economic approach to the measurement of outcomes, such as stated preference discrete choice modelling, might have captured women's preferences for alternative attributes of planned place of birth and might have been more informative to decision makers, 28 but this was not practically possible given the anonymity involved in the study design and the available resources.

Continued research is needed to evaluate child and parenting outcomes in a broader variety of cultural and socioeconomic groups.

Asking rents in many of New York City's priciest shopping corridors declined in the first quarter of the year, one outcome of the broader national retail headwinds hitting landlords across the U.S.

This paper does not provide a forecast but instead seeks to identify the main patterns of variation across constituencies in party performance and discuss their potential implications for possible seat outcomes in broad terms.

At the same time, it's a mistake to draw any broader conclusions from the outcome in next Tuesday's vote as to who may win control of the narrowly divided state Senate.

This analysis suggested that more irregular sleep timing across weeknights and weekends (very little sleep during the week and «catching up» on sleep during the weekend), and a preference for scheduling work and social time later in the evening hours can both contribute to differences in illness outcomes, conclusions that are also supported in the broader adolescent sleep literature.

«We argue that across your lifespan, you go from «broad learning» (learning many skills as an infant or child) to «specialized learning,» (becoming an expert in a specific area) when you begin working, and that leads to cognitive decline initially in some unfamiliar situations, and eventually in both familiar and unfamiliar situations,» Wu said.In the paper, Wu argues that if we reimagine cognitive aging as a developmental outcome, it opens the door for new tactics that could dramatically improve the cognitive health and quality of life for aging adults.

«Our findings have broad implications not only for malaria in pregnancy (125 million pregnancies at risk each year), but also for other globally important causes of adverse birth outcomes such as preeclampsia,» says Dr. Kain, who is also Science Director, Tropical Disease Unit at the Toronto General Hospital, UHN.

A potentially thorny outcome of fishing a broader range of species is that, in addition to catching high - value species such as salmon, fishing operators would also pull up numerous low - value fish, known as bycatch, that would otherwise be avoided or caught inadvertently and tossed back.

«Considering what bad outcomes might occur in the cyberarena needs inputs not just from the IT space but the broader space of operation,» he said.

In a related commentary, Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, writes: «There is broad consensus among physicians, hospital and health insurance leaders, and policy makers to reform payment to health care providers so as to reduce the role of fee for service, which encourages high volume, and instead to use systems that reward better patient outcomes, such as bundled payments for a population or for an episode of care.»

Pioneering projects in India and elsewhere have shown that when sex workers are able to organize and support each other, HIV prevention and treatment outcomes — not to mention broader outcomes such as safety and wellbeing — dramatically improve.

For the latest study, researchers aggregated investment in environmental incentives at a national level for the first time, and, by comparing them to broad trends in environmental outcomes, found that paying the agriculture industry to help the environment seems to be working.

«Our findings also may have broader implications, possibly improving outcomes after heart attack in patients with other autoimmune disorders.»

In addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorderIn addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorderin a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorders.

Masters of Science The 25 hours of required course work provide students with a broad base of knowledge in epidemiologic research methods, biostatistics, bioethics and the methodologies of health services and outcomes research.

Robert C. Green, MD, MPH is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and directs the Genomes2People Research Program in translational genomics and health outcomes at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Broad Institute.

But if the goal is improving student outcomes over the long term — not just generating short - term excitement — then policymakers may want to tie «free college» proposals to broader investments in higher education that make the college experience better, not just cheaper.

Given that there are large difference in outcomes by socioeconomic status within broad income groups in the United States, this condition clearly does not hold in reality.

This simple example illustrates that eliminating the average difference across the two groups will only remove all differences by socioeconomic status if there are no differences in outcomes by socioeconomic status within the broad income groups.

This may not work in all cases, but it can certainly work when we have standards broad enough to allow students to select specific sub-content within the standard or learning outcome.

This analysis indicates that participation in the FTC program has shifted toward schools with weaker track records of improving student outcomes, according to one broad categorization (share of students on scholarships) but not another (religiosity and denomination of school).

The most recent revision, completed in the fall of 2000, was promoted by NCATE as having aligned its standards with the broader movement toward accountability and outcome standards.

Drawing on our experience in North America, HCDC is eager to help build a broader movement to achieve breakthrough outcomes for children around the world.

MBE coursework provides a broad foundation in the science of cognition and brain development, the principles of teaching and learning, and the research methods that allow us to make strong connections between biological processes and educational outcomes.

Our knowledge translation and communication work, which has been a key focus since the Center's inception in 2006, is an important part of achieving the broader goals of the Center, which also include developing and testing new strategies for achieving breakthrough outcomes for children facing adversity.

We found that about half of the difference in student outcomes in schools slated for closure and the broader sample of schools can be explained by differences in incoming students» demographic characteristics, absenteeism, and achievement in middle school.

Preliminary Evidence from California's CORE Districts Brookings, 3/17/16 «A growing body of evidence confirms that student skills not directly captured by tests of academic achievement and ability predict a broad range of academic and life outcomes, even when taking into account differences in cognitive skills,» writes Associate Professor Martin West.

Promoting ideas directly, via printed materials, and electronic media — especially the internet — is very helpful in promoting the idea and practice of alternative education — which is in fact produces good outcomes for the community and nation in a broader term.

The $ 250,000 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, awarded to the charter management organization (CMO) that has demonstrated outstanding academic outcomes especially among low - income students and students of color, will be announced June 12 at the National Charter Schools Conference in Washington, D.C.

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school districtIn collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school districtin large urban school districts.

School improvement involves leadership, teachers, culture, resources, pedagogy and the broader school community all working in unison to change school practices in ways that lead to better student outcomes.

These conclusions are borne out in two broad sets of data: one based on longitudinal studies of parenting and high quality programs starting in infancy and the other based on more recent studies on the impact of preschool attendance on child outcomes.