Sentences with phrase «need controlled studies»

If we want to know the effects of a specific practice, we need controlled studies that target that particular practice.

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Page said that even in a best case scenario, a male birth control pill for consumers is still between five and 10 years away, since much larger - scale studies need to be done before the FDA would give a seal of approval.
More research is needed to rule out this second scenario, but the idea of being kind to yourself about occasional lapses in productivity or self - control — especially if you're the type to beat yourself up for every dip in productivity — has been endorsed by previous studies.
The fund said Greece's financing needs had risen since it completed its study in late June, with paralysis in the economy following the imposition of capital controls last weekend.
In rhetorical theory (the study of how to persuade), there's a term for what we need in the gun control debate: stasis.
In rhetorical theory (the study of how to persuade), there's a term for what we need in the gun control debate:
The sample size was small, and the researchers stated that the research findings indicate the need for a randomised control trial (RCT) as RCT's are widely recognised as the best study design.
However, this needs to be studied properly in human controlled trials before any recommendations can be made.
The hospital birthing center where I had my baby offers it... My midwife was actually excited that I wanted to do water labor but no water birth... I was the only one of her patients who DID N'T intend to birth in the water and she needed people birthing out of the tub for a control group in a waterbirth infection study she was contributing to.
To do this it needs to be done «a-priori», ie designed from the outset to be a case controlled study.
Though we found some rigorous studies that after controlling for certain variables showed positive results of the AP program, especially in the sciences, we believe more research needs to be done before we can verify the broad claim that taking AP classes makes students more likely to succeed in college.
But ¨ variety of scientific studies indicate that rather than it being completely controlled by the environment, the baby's own maturational rate as influenced by its unique internal needs to awaken, to feed, to find reassurance, or to oxygenate, are as much influencing factors in night waking and «sleeping through the night» as is sleep location, per se.
A need to supplement breastfeeding occurred in 27 % of the control group but increased to 46 % in the study group.
To determine whether the presence and strength of the associations between individual risk factors and severe PPH vary among women undergoing prelabor CD or intrapartum CD, stratified analyses are needed according to CD subtype.To identify risk factors for severe PPH within 2 distinct CD populations, prelabor CD and intrapartum CD, we performed 2 case - control studies.
More research needs to be done, they say, pointing out that this was not a controlled trial, only an observational study.
Not only do kids need less food than adults, but studies show that preschoolers do a better job controlling portion size when they're allowed to serve themselves.
In another study, fathers with children enrolled in Early Head Start employed significantly more complex social play interactions with their 24 - month - olds than did fathers with children in a control group.17 These studies suggest possible benefits to fathers who become involved in Head Start, but more studies are needed to replicate these findings and to demonstrate how fathers and children are affected by participation.
Al Carlacci, the regional air pollutant control engineer for the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said he doesn't need a meter or an air quality monitor to tell him that there's some dirty air in the West Side near the Peace Bridge, where studies have shown high levels of asthma.
More large - scale, randomized controlled studies are needed to tease out the risks and benefits.
By implication, studies are still needed to evaluate whether controlling inflammation earlier in life has a long - term protective effect.
«We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,» says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist.
In response, the US Centers for Disease Control issued a clarification, saying the studies were in otherwise healthy people with mostly mild winter flu, not the older, sicker people who need Tamiflu most.
But he emphasizes the need for further controlled clinical studies to confirm the effect.
A 2007 study concluded F. s. lybica was domesticated at least 9,000 years ago, somewhere in the Middle East, as grain cultivation spread and farmers needed reliable pest control.
«This study has uncovered regular movement of disease across borders in the region, emphasizing the need for countries to work together to control this neglected disease.
«I think the Cochrane review highlighted the possibilities and benefits of using clonidine for pre-op sedation, [anxiety] and post-op pain, but we still need more well - designed, controlled studies before clonidine can be recommended as the pre-op drug of choice,» Zeltzer said.
Future functional studies are needed to test whether these accelerated regions control disease processes in people.
Future studies are needed to better define the molecular mechanism behind TREML4 - induced amplification of TLR7 signaling and to clarify beneficial reactions controlled by TREML4 — for example, the immune response to influenza virus, which the current study found was inhibited by TREML4 deficiency.
The real advance of the study, he says, is that the team was able to figure out which neurons they needed to record to control two arms working together.
«Our population in this trial also had a high response rate in the control group, so further studies are needed in broader populations to assess the efficacy of buprenorphine implants versus sublingual buprenorphine in other settings.»
... Finally, this study draws attention to the need for large controlled clinical trials to determine if a combination of fall prevention strategies and treatment with bone - active drugs might produce additive benefits on fractures, especially in high - risk populations such as those living in nursing homes.
The doctors and 254 women who provided contact information and enrolled in the study were assigned randomly to either a control group (the women received a list of resources and normal physicians» care if needed; the doctors received a basic education packet on intimate partner violence) or an experimental group.
«Clinicians need to get beyond the idea that birth control just means «the pill,»» said study senior author Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, professor of internal medicine at UC Davis Health System.
Larger, well - designed studies, such as cluster randomized trials, are ultimately needed to confirm the effectiveness of this strategy,» writes Alice Y. Guh, M.D., M.P.H., and L. Clifford McDonald, M.D., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.
The study points out that complete compliance with hand hygiene guidelines that are established for non-operating room environments would consume more than the 60 minutes available in each hour of anesthesia time, «a fact that identifies a need to create more practical — but still effective — methods of controlling bacterial transmission in anesthesia work environments,» the authors write.
«Cancer survivors need healthy social connections, and to the best of our knowledge this is the first published study to quantify social networks of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors compared to their peers,» said I - Chan Huang, Ph.D., an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, who led the study.
«Despite having good treatments available, current reports suggest that fewer than half of individuals who need therapy are actually getting appropriate HIV medicine to control their virus, leading to more transmission of disease,» says lead study author Maunank Shah, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The key findings of both studies were in agreement: in order for a nascent pandemic to be controlled there needs to be 3 million courses of oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-- the antiviral drug — available for the World Health Organization to mobilise and deploy internationally, immediately.
Further, the findings of this study of the North Pacific highlight the need for greater controls on the emission of nitrogen compounds during combustion and agricultural processes.
A systematic review of published studies on the use of medical cannabis in children and adolescents finds a notable lack of studies and a minimal number of the randomized, controlled trials needed to confirm the effectiveness of a treatment.
«Our study highlights the scale and impacts of feral cats and the urgent need to develop effective control methods, and to target our efforts in areas where that control will produce the biggest gains» says Dr Legge.
The academies» study also stressed that concerns over proliferation of nuclear weapons may continue to outweigh the need to reform Western export controls, at least until Russia establishes effective export controls of its own.
«Conflicts subverting improved health conditions in Eastern Mediterranean Region: New study finds «immediate need» to rebuild health systems to control disease outbreaks.»
Clinical studies thus far have failed to identify an effective treatment strategy when a combination of targets controlling aspects of neuroprotection, neuroinflammation, and neuroregeneration is needed.
«To prove the efficacy we need double - blind control studies, which is very difficult to conduct in such settings,» he says.
Professor Nick Talbot, Professor of Molecular Genetics and expert in plant diseases, said: «The strategy of introducing less aggressive microbes to fight more aggressive ones may prove effective to control some crop disease, but our study shows that they are not a silver bullet and caution needs to be exercised.
«In both behavioral tests used in this study, the mice need to control the paw movement,» explains Yi Li, M.D., a Henry Ford neuroscientist and lead author of the study.
«Our results in this study represent an NMR signal enhancement equivalent to that achieved in the pioneering experiments of Lucio Frydman and coworkers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, but using microwave - induced dynamic nuclear hyperpolarization in diamonds without the need for precise control over magnetic field and crystal alignment,» Pines says.
Now a study from a team at the Department of Economics University of Zurich and the University of Dusseldorf shows that a second mechanism is also important for self - control: Being able to direct attention to one's future needs.
Co-author Berk Usta, PhD, of MGH - CEM, adds, «While further replication and validation using more compounds are needed, this study demonstrates the importance of fine control of liver metabolism.
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