2/29/16 — Sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating because of human - driven global warming, according to
new studies reported by the Associated Press.
Families living at high altitudes should be aware of a 2x higher risk of SIDS says
a new study reported by the New York Times.
Not exact matches
Topics included: early
reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The
New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations
by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted
by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations
by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices
by the credit card industry; a
study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
The
New York Times» Margot Sanger - Katz points out that earlier
studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)-- the independent scorekeepers who keep tabs on how legislation affects the budget and the country and whose
report on the GOP repeal - and - replace effort last week sent Obamacare opponents into disarray — found that simply repealing Obamacare would only lead to 23 million fewer uninsured Americans.
But Darrell West, director of governance
studies at the Brookings Institution, has done his best to comb through disclosure
reports and,
by combining that information with qualitative judgments about softer forms of power, come up with a ranking of our
new oligarchy.
«With increasing age, people get more pleasure out of everyday experiences; while younger people define themselves more
by extraordinary experiences, a
new study finds,»
reports PsyBlog.
A
new study by Harvard University and University of Vermont researchers suggests that just may be the case, my colleague Aric Jenkins
reports.
Another
study reported by The
New York Times in 2008 found that men who did not take a vacation at least once a year had a «21 percent higher risk of death from all causes and were 32 percent more likely to die of a heart attack».
According to a
new study by Monster Canada, 9 in 10 Canadians aged 18 - 30
reported applying to a job online immediately following graduation.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for
new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven
by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused
by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held
by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit
new drug applications for
new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for
new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical
studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's
reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
A
new study by Canadian tech innovator hub MaRS
reported that tech companies in Toronto saw a significant escalation of...
Report of a
study undertaken
by the Committee on Public Health Relations of the
New York Academy of Medicine under a grant from the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, 1947.
(The cliched but classic example would be Milgram's experiment — but recent
studies, such as one
reported by the
New York Times at the beginning of this month, reveal similar things).
According to a
new report released Wednesday
by the Trafficking in Persons
Study Commission, about 1,000 American - born children are forced into labor and sex trafficking each year — in Ohio.
Thomas Wieser (
New York: United States Conference for the World Council of Churches, 1966); World Council of Churches, Concept, newsletter published
by the Department on
Studies in Evangelism, WCC; World Council of Churches, The
New Delhi
Report: The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches, 1961 (London: SCM Press, 1962), 189 - 91; World Council of Churches,
New Delhi to Uppsala:
Report of the Central Committee to the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches (Geneva: WCC, 1968), 66 - 70; World Council of Churches, The Uppsala
Report: Official
Report of the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Uppsala, July 4 - 20, 1968 (Geneva: WCC, 1968), 33f.
Sean MacBride, Many Voices, One World:
Report by the International Commission for the
Study of Communication Problems (
New York: Unipub, 1981).
A
study by Salon looked at
reporting trends using the The
New York Times as a case
study following Hurricane Katrina, the Japan tsunami, and the Haiti earthquake.
As
reported by the
New York Times, the President of the company that makes the product in question (SimplyThick) claimed, «There was no need to conduct
studies (for use of the product in infant formula), as the use of thickeners overall was already well established.
A 2011
report from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research found that between 1985 and 2009, IRRI varieties and breeding lines contributed, on average, 50 % of the annual yield increases in southern Vietnam and the use of
new varieties increased Vietnamese rice farmers» income
by US$ 127 per hectare (in 2009 values) per year during the
study period.
This
new study and many other previous
studies clearly contradict the propaganda espoused
by Big Pharma and the U.S. Government dietary advice, which has been waging a war against saturated fats since the 1970s and the McGovern
Report that promoted the false hypothesis that saturated fats led to an increase in lipid cholesterol levels and an increased risk for heart disease.
Media
reports on the finding
by Dr. McKee and her colleagues in a
new study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that 110 of 111 deceased NFL players her group had autopsied had CTE will undoubtedly take the level of fear among sports parents and present and former athletes in all contact and collision sports alike to even more frenzied heights.
As with any
new treatment, there are few
studies reporting on the effectiveness of PRP, and even those that have been published are debated
by experts, leading the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons to the «hottest topic in orthopedics.»
It's long been believed that allowing kids to take recess before lunch leads to greater fruit and vegetable consumption and less food waste, but a
new study reported on
by Reuters says otherwise.
An article
by The
New York Times revealed a
study conducted in 2009
by the marketing company Onepoll, where five thousand male respondents
reported that they ate more as the pregnancies of their partners continued to progress.
In keeping with the rather serious tone infecting The Lunch Tray this week (except for the comic relief provided
by the school lunch lady action figure - thank goodness for her), the Wall Street Journal recently
reported on two
new studies showing... [Continue reading]
In a March 11, 2015 «Well» blog
New York Times health reporter, Gretchen Reynolds, reported on a new study by NYU researchers, including Laura Balcer, a member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, about the use of a simple, rapid, and inexpensive visual test called King - Devick as a sideline screen to help identify athletes as young as five
New York Times health reporter, Gretchen Reynolds,
reported on a
new study by NYU researchers, including Laura Balcer, a member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, about the use of a simple, rapid, and inexpensive visual test called King - Devick as a sideline screen to help identify athletes as young as five
new study by NYU researchers, including Laura Balcer, a member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, about the use of a simple, rapid, and inexpensive visual test called King - Devick as a sideline screen to help identify athletes as young as five wit
Last week a bunch of
new reports emerged on a
new infant sleep
study being conducted
by a nurse named Jennifer Combs.
In keeping with the rather serious tone infecting The Lunch Tray this week (except for the comic relief provided
by the school lunch lady action figure — thank goodness for her), the Wall Street Journal recently
reported on two
new studies showing that good heart health starts in childhood — and that poor habits can potentially cause cardiac problems later in life.
A
new study suggests that the best way to combat the chronic under
reporting of concussion
by athletes may be to target - and try to change — the prevailing negative attitude of coaches towards
reporting.
For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related
study funded
by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a
new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be
reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.
New studies should be large enough to include assessment and
reporting of impacts
by important subgroups to improve our understanding of what works for which populations.
The
New York Times
reported on a
study completed
by the AAP which found 40.4 percent of mothers
reported introducing solids to their baby before they were even four months old and 9 percent of them started as young as just four weeks.
A
new study to appear in the Journal of Econometrics and
reported by Science Daily has found that participation in the National School Lunch Program («NSLP») reduces food insecurity among impoverished children
by 3.8 percent and reduces poor general health
by 29 percent.
The
New York Times
reported on a
study by PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) describes how human milk sugars protect and coat the newborn's digestive tract.
The
New York Times story published July 27 has raised issues (blew the whistle we lied in congress) with how the research conducted
by Datalys was
reported — No, how USA Football used the
study that Datalys conducted and clearly lists the limitations on page 7 of the
report.
Given the results of a a
new study reported in the British medical journal, The Lancet4 that children and young adults scanned multiple times
by CT have a small increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors in the decade following their first scan, parents should make sure a CT scan is really necessary in treatment of their child after head injury.
This
study compared risk assessment
by physicians with midwives
reporting new mothers to the doctor.
The depths and extent of that shameful relationship has been revealed in a
new report, A Shameful Relationship: UK Complicity in Saudi State Violence
by David Wearing, a researcher at the School of Oriental & African
Studies.
A
new study I carried out for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it exam
study I carried out for the Reuters Institute for the
Study of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it exam
Study of Journalism shows that in the television
reporting of the three recent blockbuster
reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still
by far the most common in the six countries it examined.
Following a
report this week
by the
New York City comptroller that found Airbnb's presence had significantly increased rents in the city, the company whose data formed the basis for the
study on Friday condemned the findings.
In a
new report - After PFI - released yesterday
by the Centre for Policy
Studies, Jesse Norman MP has advocated the abolition of PFI, and its replacement with a
new model of public sector procurement.
A separate
report by the Institute for Fiscal
Studies has warned that the
new system would hit working, single parents who would be over # 1,000 a year worse off on average.
The findings of the
new study are all the more remarkable after re-examining the comments made
by the Duke's Rob Jackson, and critics of his
study, when the original
report was released, specifically on the sample size and baseline data:
The
New York Times
reports on a
study by the Regional Plan Association that says the cost of operating 55 miles of planned waterfront parks would be $ 100 million a year — almost one - third of the park department's budget.
And, it seems, the community's concerns about being priced out of neighborhoods targeted
by the de Blasio administration as oases of affordability are not idle: The Wall Street Journal
reports that land prices in East
New York, named
by de Blasio as the first neighborhood that would be
studied for denser development, have nearly tripled during the first nine months of 2012, rising from $ 32 per square foot last year to $ 93 per square foot this year.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's commission to
study tax cuts appears likely to miss the Friday deadline to
report its findings
by December 6, after controversy over former Governor George Pataki's desire to cut income taxes for all wage earners, including the wealthy.
Most recently, in a
report published in January
by researchers from McGill University, an analysis of
New York City, Newark and
New Jersey between September 2014 and August 2017 found that the median tenant within the
study's area was paying $ 380 more in rent due to a decrease in housing stock caused
by Airbnb's operations.
This is the key finding from a
new report published today
by the Institute of Alcohol
Studies (UK) and the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education — FARE (Australia).
The two said they
studied the recommendations made in a
report by the Independent Commission on
New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform and claim their proposal could streamline the process.
Nearly 4,000 minors are trafficked in
New York City yearly, according to a 2001
study by End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT - USA) cited in the committee's
report.