Sentences with phrase «for false results»

The laboratory may require several samples for thorough testing; meanwhile there is an increased likelihood for false results.

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In particular, the complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that (1) the trials for GED - 0301 suffered from fatal design defects, such that GED - 0301 had failed to demonstrate meaningful clinical efficacy; (2) the growth of Otezla sales had dramatically slowed during Celgene's third fiscal quarter of 2017; and (3) the clinical and nonclinical pharmacology data in Celgene's new drug application («NDA») for Ozanimod were insufficient to permit a complete review by the FDA, which resulted in the FDA issuing a refusal to file letter to Celgene regarding the NDA.

They suggest most women in their 40s should not have routine mammograms because the tests may cause more harm than good because of false positive results (follow - up testing proves negative for cancer).

For the record, the stories we are referencing in this campaign are the unsubstantiated ones (i.e. fake / false) like «Pope Endorses Trump» which move quickly across social media and result in an ill - informed public,» reads the memo.

Vicky Phelan's false negative result has shown yet again the state's cavalier attitude towards women's health issues

For the Irish government, the timing couldn't be worse.

THE BIOPSY»S DANGEROUS CASCADE: HOW TO LESSEN THE NEED FOR INVASIVE TESTING Intervention Track Hosted By: Insigniam Current medical tests are too often marred by high rates of overdiagnosis («false positive» results) or they too often miss the danger altogether («false negatives»).

For instance, US Search (now owned by peoplesearch giant Intelius) was sued last October by the FTC for promising customers their PrivacyLock service would block customers» data from public access (PrivacyLock's own claims to remove individuals from results were falsFor instance, US Search (now owned by peoplesearch giant Intelius) was sued last October by the FTC for promising customers their PrivacyLock service would block customers» data from public access (PrivacyLock's own claims to remove individuals from results were falsfor promising customers their PrivacyLock service would block customers» data from public access (PrivacyLock's own claims to remove individuals from results were false).

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Riskified's fraud prevention solution eliminates false declines, resulting in more revenue, a better shopping experience for consumers, and an improved brand reputation.

At the same time as an ever more bloated scientific bureaucracy churns out masses of research results, the majority of which are likely outright false, scientists themselves are lauded as heroes and science is upheld as the only legitimate basis for policy - making.

The resulting pile of frizzed natural and false hair could be worn for weeks at a time once set in place.

The impartial search for truth is having enough problems these days, what with the discovery that many prominent scientific results, over a broad swath of fields, are non-replicable and likely false.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Note: if using chocolate for the top, avoid skewering a piece of chocolate otherwise you will get a false skewer result!

Past performance is no guarantee of future results, August is packed with false positives, and there's no morals clause for the postseason.

A 4 - 0 win over Bayern Munich in Shenzhen, China, last year proved to be a false dawn for a new - look side then coached by Vincenzo Montella, and they will be looking for better results this summer with Gennaro Gattuso guiding them through the preseason.

The audience buys in to this false fatalistic identity as a result of their own (mostly) unrealized fantasies: if Meg Ryan isn't a bad person for randomly ditching her fiance they're not bad people for doing (or thinking about doing) something similar... Nobody cares who gets hurt as long as Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are happy when the credits roll.

The other interesting aspects of this article are the possible anecdotal evidence for one of the benefits of free birth over a birth with an unskilled midwife, possible resulting in a false sense of security - she realised something was wrong and went to hospital - and also the description of the birth - the first twin's head essentially becoming trapped by the second twin - which seems to match something Attitude Devant raised as a possible complication of first twin breech, in one of the Lisa Barrett threads.

There is some evidence that the use of continuous electronic fetal monitoring may lead to increased false positives for fetal hypoxemia and to resulting caesarean sections.21, 22

GER is difficult to diagnosis in infants and young children due to the fact that the few tests that are available to test for it are somewhat unreliable and often give false negative results.

Although we do not have results of confirmatory testing, we would expect a similar rate of false positives for our screening.

A basic but educated reading of the guidelines would seem to suggest the relevant tariff fits within the four to 18 month bracket, and even then the upper 18 month end seems somewhat unlikely given that serious cases involving false allegations of rape, where men have actually been arrested and kept in custody for 17 hours, have resulted in just 24 months in prison.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has threatened to reject future requests for lucrative stipend payments — AKA lulus — worth tens of thousands of dollars from the Republican - led state Senate as a result of its continued use of false committee titles to draw down payments for senators who are part of its ruling coalition.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has rejected tens of thousands of dollars in stipends for five state senators — including two IDC members — after an investigation revealed that the lawmakers had been assigned false titles as chairs of committees they did not lead and as a result had been paid for jobs they did not hold.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has rejected tens of thousands of dollars in stipends for five state Senators after an investigation revealed that the lawmakers had been assigned false titles as chairs of committees they did not lead and as a result had been paid for jobs they did not hold.

As for whether the by - election should be happening at all, three quarters of voters in the seat (including a majority of Labour voters) think Phil Woolas «did make false statements about his opponents and this probably affected the result», so rerunning the election was the right decision.

On November 15, the DOI released the results of an investigation detailing how NYCHA failed to inspect for the hazardous paint at its public housing facilities, and also submitted false documentation to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) stating that the agency was in compliance with federal laws requiring the inspections to be performed.

UPDATE: Stefanik spokesman Lenny Alcivar emailed a response to Derrick's ad, calling it a «false» attempt to «deceive voters about Elise's strong, bipartisan record of results for the North Country.»

It is false that Aero Vote was awarded a contract worth US$ 8.95 million for the printing of the Statement of Polls and Declaration of Results Forms.

This observation and assertion is grounded on the clear understanding and full knowledge of the Traditional NDC Members and even the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NDC, that the Parliamentary Primaries which was held on the 22nd November, 2015 to elect a candidate was fraught and marred with violence, intimidations, fraud and false accusations spearheaded by Sam George, one of the candidates, for which reason the result of that elections could not be said or taken to represent the Will and aspirations of the majority of the NDC membership in the constituency and the country at large.

However, Peacefmonline can confirm investigations into the issue of false claims by some 10 suspected medical facilities which has already resulted in the arrest of five other officials at the NHIA headquarters with three of them being prepared for court to be remanded whilst the other two have been granted bail, was started by the BNI a couple of months ago.

ALBANY — The New York State Comptroller's office has rejected tens of thousands of dollars in stipends for five state senators after an investigation revealed that the lawmakers had been assigned false titles as chairs of committees they did not lead and as a result had been paid for jobs they did not hold.

As a result of the audit, former fire chief Richard Salzmann was arrested and charged by Ulster County District Attorney D. Holley Carnright with offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor.

«It is false that Aerovote was awarded a contract worth US$ 8.95 million for the printing of the Statement of Polls and Declaration of Results Forms.

He denies taking credit for others» discoveries, arguing that he was required to scrutinize all results before they were announced to the media, to prevent unscrupulous archaeologists from making false claims.

So in practical terms, Bowyer's results suggest that the false match rate for a system would increase to 2.5 in 2 million after three years had elapsed.

When the results were compared with studies in the literature using standard radiocolloid tracers the researchers found that the SN biopsy using tilmanocept provided a high identification rate and low false negative rate for SNs, thus facilitating accurate prediction of the spread of the cancer.

Because ovarian cancer is relatively rare, occurring in approximately one out of every 2,500 women, a test with only 99 percent specificity would result in false - positive diagnoses for 25 women, leading to unnecessary and risky surgeries and procedures.

While there are a number of portable tests for cocaine commercially available, these are mainly based on antibody reagents, which can not offer quantitative data and — since the cocaine antibody can bind to something that is not cocaine — can give false positive results.

In 1985, research for a television documentary showed again that a range of substances could give a false result, including materials found in cigarette packets and postcards.

Given the lack of mortality benefit of screening, and the moderate to substantial harms that could result from false - positive screeningtest results and subsequent surgery, the USPSTF concludes with moderate certainty that the harms of screening for ovarian cancer outweigh the benefit, and the net balance of the benefit and harms of screening is negative.

But this test is inconsistent, varies by manufacturer and can provide false negatives, which can result in health problems for those who are sensitive.

Part of the reason for this uncertainty is that it is very difficult to knock - out non-coding RNA without damaging the DNA, which can lead to off - target effects and false results.

In two unpublished experiments testing cotton - top tamarins» responses to strings of consonants and vowels, Hauser recorded false values for some of the monkeys» responses, creating the appearance of statistically significant results.

Researchers believe there are two explanations for the very high false positive results from the first stage of the screening process.

The documents also suggest that the officials knew that the Pasteur test was not ready for the market at this stage, because it was still giving too many false negative results.

Used in conjunction with mammography, imaging based on nuclear medicine is currently being used as a successful secondary screening alongside mammography to reduce the number of false positive results in women with dense breasts and at higher risk for developing breast cancer.

But about half of all women who follow standard screening protocol for 10 years will receive a false - positive result that will require additional screening, particularly women who have dense breast tissue.

For an actual estimate of how likely a result is to be true or false, said Ioannidis, researchers should instead use false - discovery rates or Bayes factor calculations.

Mammograms with false - positive results were associated with increased short - term anxiety for women, and more women with false - positive results reported that they were more likely to undergo future breast cancer screening.