If we want to know the effects of a specific practice,
we need controlled studies that target that particular practice.
Not exact matches
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.