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 summer, a slew
of new studies reported results on efforts to shift the balance of cells in the immune system in hopes of keeping disease at bay.
Not exact matches
A
new study found that participants who
reported playing hours
of games a week were better at a predictive task involving cue cards.
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.
A
new study found that young people are
reporting loneliness in increasing numbers and at a rate outpacing that
of their elderly counterparts, USA Today
reports.
A
new study out
of Tulane University
reported in the Wall Street Journal is the perfect example.
Levy
reported that in a 2004
study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from
New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels
of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task
of proofreading assigned them at the end
of their commute.»
A giant
new study, reported in the New York Times, found that people who drank between three and five cups of coffee a day had a 15 percent lower risk of dying young from heart disease and several other medical conditio
new study,
reported in the
New York Times, found that people who drank between three and five cups of coffee a day had a 15 percent lower risk of dying young from heart disease and several other medical conditio
New York Times, found that people who drank between three and five cups
of coffee a day had a 15 percent lower risk
of dying young from heart disease and several other medical conditions.
Jon Levs, author
of All in: How Our Work - First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses — And How We Can Fix It Together,
studied the effect
of paid leave in California and
New Jersey, which have paid family leave programs, and found that the majority
of businesses
reported that their state's paid leave programs had either no effect or a positive effect on their business.
The
study, which surveyed 50,000 adults in 24 developed countries, found that «daughters
of working mothers completed more years
of education, were more likely to be employed and in supervisory roles, and earned higher incomes,»
reports Claire Cain Miller in The
New York Times.
Those are the findings
of a
new Milecards.com
study, which crunched five years
of on - time arrival, gate - to - takeoff times and landing - to-gate time data
reported to the U.S. Department
of Transportation.
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.
«Life satisfaction dips in middle age, after which it starts going up again beyond the age
of 54, a
new study of worldwide well - being finds,» PsyBlog
reports.
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».
A
new study reveals wealthy Americans might be a bit delusional when it comes to sizing the wealth
of others,
reports NBC News.
The
new study again relied on people's self -
reported alcohol habits, so they need to be taken with a grain
of salt.
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 survey
of New York City employers after implementation
of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent
of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result
of the law.26 In a similar
study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also
reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit
of the District
of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside
of Washington.28
A
new study by Canadian tech innovator hub MaRS
reported that tech companies in Toronto saw a significant escalation
of...
2See Macroprudential Policy: Case
Study from a Tabletop Exercise, Tobias Adrian, Patrick de Foutnouvelle, Emily Yang, and Andrei Zlate, Federal Reserve Bank
of New York Staff
Report No. 742, September 2015.
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studies on the level
of preparedness
of Canada's future retirees have some common conclusions, according to a
new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.
Prefabricated materials were used in 65 percent
of the designs presented for the Case
Study House Program, which was held to demonstrate how technology developed during World War II could be applied to housing construction once the troops returned, the
New York Times
reported.
In comparison, three - quarters
of cities in the UBS
study are overvalued, with San Francisco the most overvalued city in the U.S. Housing in Boston and
New York is deemed at fair value, the
report said.
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The
New International Version Archaeological
Study Bible
reports: «Scholars have debated the historicity
of these references to camels because most believe that these animals were not widely domesticated until approximately 1200 B.C., long after the time
of Abraham.»
Spitzer's change hinges on his
new belief that
reports of change in his
study were not credible.
Sociologist Bradford Wilcox
reports the surprising results
of his
new international
study on cohabitation and its impact on kids.
«The Wall Street Journal recently
reported the results
of a
new study, which suggested that schools shouldn't wait until students are teenagers to teach evolutionary ideas.
Merrimon Cuninggim in The College Seeks Religion (
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1947), pp. 298 - 300,
reports on a careful
study of seventy state - supported institutions and finds that 80 per cent have departments
of religion or courses in religion offered in other departments
of the curriculum.
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).
Amanda Spielman, head
of the non-ministerial department said
new laws and powers to protect children who mostly
study religious holy books such as the bible, the Sunday Times
reports.
This is according to a
New York Times report of a new study in The Journal of the American Medical Associati
New York Times
report of a
new study in The Journal of the American Medical Associati
new study in The Journal
of the American Medical Association.
Nestle, chair
of nutrition
studies at
New York University, has been on the front line
of the food wars as managing editor
of the first — and so far only — Surgeon General's
Report on Nutrition and Health, which appeared in 1988.
Italy's National Agency for
New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development published a final
report last month on the authenticity
of the Shroud
of Turin, after five years
of experiments and
studies.
A
study of the psychology
of prejudice,
reported in The Authoritarian Personality, (T. W. Adorno, et al. (
New York: Harper 8c Row, 1950) showed that prejudice is often associated with personality distortions.
Report on a
New World Communication Order, International Commission for the
Study of Communication Problems (the MacBride Commission)(
New York: UNESCO, l980).
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.
In that
study -
reported in the 18th February issue
of The
New England Journal
of Medicine - they showed that some PVS patients were clearly able to interpret spoken instructions and respond to them meaningfully.
Sean MacBride, Many Voices, One World:
Report by the International Commission for the
Study of Communication Problems (
New York: Unipub, 1981).
The 269 - page, $ 1.7 million Jewish Community
Study of New York: 2011 Comprehensive
Report was released in June 2012, at the same time that the Book
of Numbers was being read in the synagogue.
on revising the NRSV to meet Rome's objections and
report that they have now received official approval for their rendering
of the lessons used in Sunday Mass. (A further advantage
of the Catholic edition
of the RSV is that, unlike the Canadian Revised
New Revised Standard Version, it is a complete Bible, meaning the same text can be used for
study and for liturgical purposes.)
The
report, «Carrageenan:
New Studies Reinforce Link to Inflammation, Cancer, and Diabetes,» is the result
of a three - year investigation on the part
of the Cornucopia Institute and contains information gleaned from 1,337 questionnaire responses from individuals about their own health.
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.
In 2014 kale farmers struggled to keep up with the
new demand for kale after several
studies reported that kale contained high levels
of antioxidants and other essential nutrients, leaving many supermarkets out
of stock.
And one in every five
of these think least once per hour about this game, according to a
new study reports.
In a recent
study, 70 %
of new fathers
reported it took them weeks and months, not hours, to bond or form a strong attachment to their babies.