Sentences with phrase «of the medical claims about»

His offence was to post messages on the widely read mailing list Tobacco Policy Talk, in which he questioned one of the medical claims about passive smoking, as well as the wisdom of extreme measures such as outdoor smoking bans.

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The new offering, «Watson for Patient Safety,» will gobble up anonymized medical records, claims data, and millions of electronic submissions to the FDA about potential drug side effects (known as individual case safety reports) to see if it can learn about the hidden dangers of medicines before they become too costly.

He said that they did not work on any projects together and that he had «no idea» about Kogan's claim of an offer from Harvard Medical School for millions of medical rMedical School for millions of medical rmedical records.

How about when the church promotes the claim in Africa that condom use leads to the spread of AIDS which fly's in the face of medical knowledge?

The current arrangement of the theological curriculum makes no more sense, he explains, than if a medical school were to claim that it had to keep students away from patients in order really to teach them about medicine.

Remy, meanwhile, ended up joining Chelsea and contributed to their Premier League title success with seven goals, raising even more questions about whether or not he should have been signed by Liverpool despite the BBC's claims of medical issues.

Thewliss, MP for Glasgow Central, said legislation was needed to tackle a legal loophole that allows «scientifically questionable» claims about the health benefits of formula milk to be printed in reputable medical and nursing journals.

The surrogate also claims that the wife said she'd abort any child that had a medical condition, and talked about the baby like it was a pet of some sort.

But at the point of writing this article, she had come to question claims about the extreme benefits of breast feeding, questioning the difference in how popular literature and medical literature understand the benefits.

It was when he made the extraordinary claim that he knew nothing about three crucial reports that had been commissioned from international experts by Labour Minister Lord Darzi (and not the Chief Medical Officer, as Nicholson told the Committee) to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the NHS.

A former official of the New York City medical examiner's office sued the city on Thursday, claiming that she had been forced from her job for raising questions about the office's use of a novel form of DNA testing whose reliability had come under question.

I'd like to remind all these Kool - Aid drinker's that their hero never picked up a shovel at ground zero to suck up the fumes that unfortunately took the life of Detective James Zadrega back in 2007 who the Mayor and his Chief Puppet, Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch claimed that this hero from our society had deliberately (some how) was ingesting asbestos and other toxic material's into his body so that his 5 year old daughter would receive some form of monetary compensation from the city that upset the parents of the detective (Mr. James Zadroga Sr. & his wife Linda) so much that His Highness (to save face with the public) gave them permission to speak to him after his Chief Medical Examimer Charles Hirsh had threatened them not to go public or speak to any reporter in an attempt to stifle the truth about their son's story.

«This is about the relationship between a father and his son,» Mr. Conniff argued, claiming that a municipal waste treatment start - up and a medical malpractice insurance firm hired his client because of his name recognition and ties to Long Island elected officials.

«While the evidence of the effectiveness of brain training remains controversial, our results suggest that the public is interested in learning more about the actual science behind the claims made by the app developers, «says Dr. John Torous, a clinical psychiatrist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, lead author of the study.

Of the many oddities in the case of Japanese researcher Hisashi Moriguchi, who admitted over the weekend to lying about a startling stem cell experiment, is how for years he managed to claim an affiliation with Harvard Medical School in Boston that did not exisOf the many oddities in the case of Japanese researcher Hisashi Moriguchi, who admitted over the weekend to lying about a startling stem cell experiment, is how for years he managed to claim an affiliation with Harvard Medical School in Boston that did not exisof Japanese researcher Hisashi Moriguchi, who admitted over the weekend to lying about a startling stem cell experiment, is how for years he managed to claim an affiliation with Harvard Medical School in Boston that did not exist.

Fang Shimin, under the pen name Fang Zhouzi, has been publicizing allegations of academic fraud and questionable medical claims on his Web site New Threads for about a decade.

But the review panel says that scientists should be careful not to make exaggerated claims about the medical impact of such research, and funding organizations should encourage more cooperation between basic and clinical researchers to make sure experimental results have maximum impact.

Judge Carlos Lucero, in a partial dissent, argued against such immunity: «The notion that a device manufacturer is immune from liability for harm caused by its device when the manufacturer has pushed the device for a use that the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] never approved is neither logical nor consistent with the Supreme Court's prior rulings about the scope of preemption of claims arising from harm caused by medical devices.»

Citing the number of great successes medical research has brought us — lifesaving drugs from penicillin to insulin, along with invaluable treatments and medical devices — he adds, «It's one more reason why we have to be appropriately skeptical, unafraid to speak out about misleading claims, and insistent upon holding clinical research to the standards of science.»

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A team of scientists claim to have recovered the oldest known copy of a gospel, dating back to the 1st century AD, which they extracted from papyri used to Ebers papyrus: Ebers papyrus, Egyptian compilation of medical texts dated about 1550 bc, one of the oldest known medical works.

According to Birth.Movies.Death., Matt Damon has signed on to star in Charlatan, a movie about a man named John Romulus Brinkley who claimed to be a doctor in the early 1900s and ended up killing a number of people with his fraudulent — yet oddly crowd - pleasing — medical advice.

You'll see how each incorporates medical model guidelines for evaluations of product research and claims about consistency, claim control, and quackery (or expertise).

Roughly 4.5 million people are bitten each year in the U.S. and about 885,000 require medical attention — half of whom are children and many result in liability insurance claims.

You'll have coverage for medical payments to others, so that if a guest is injured on your premises they can be made whole without going through the process of a liability claim and without having to worry about determining fault.

Because insurance claims can be confusing and often require interpretation of medical records, the staff member completing these forms should be knowledgeable about the different companies and plans offered.

Your veterinarian can provide more detail about the medical aspect of your pet's condition that is helpful to re-review the claim.

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He didn't allow me to speak much, but I did get in my favorite argument about scientists needing 95 % certainty to make claim and thus being overly cautious (they need to avoid false positives in order to protect their reputations — which is understandable), while those living in the world (environmentalists, potential victims) would want to follow the «medical model» of avoiding false negatives, and would be concerned about possible problems at a much lower standard of certainty (a doctor would not tell her patient that there is only 94 % certainty the lump is cancerous, so we won't operate).

There is some confusion about the term hemp oil as some proponents of the medical use of hash oil, which is solvent extracted from the bud and leaves of high - THC varieties of the Cannabis plant, purposely refer to it as «hemp oil» to make their claims.

Seems to me many people who have little knowledge of climate science or substantive knowledge of actual impacts of warming (like the medical doctors worried about asthma) adopt as a default position to «do no harm»... IOW no matter the plausibility of the claimed harm, better to take whatever steps are suggested than to be possibly responsible for harm.

In her 30 + years in practice, she has handled just about every kind of lawsuit you can think of — from shareholder derivative suits to medical device litigation, from disputes about insurance (life, title, commercial general liability) to claims based on federal statutes (RICO, TCPA, ERISA).

Even when the investigation reveals no grounds for a medical negligence claim, injured parties and their families receive peace of mind and closure from learning the truth about what happened.

If an accident lawyer starts a claim on behalf of an injured person, that lawyer notifies OHIP that a claim has been brought, and OHIP in turn notifies the lawyer about how much OHIP has spent on the injured party's medical treatment.

timely responses to communications by email and telephone timely production of documents especially medical counsel for plaintiffs advising their clients about early settlement and realistic expectations counsel for defendants advising their clients to attend mediations with sufficient settlement authority expertise in a particular area of law posturing and egotism on both sides claims for punitive damages where none are warranted under law preparation for significant events such as examinations for discovery and motions accountability for the consequences of steps taken or delayed unnecessary or defensive crossclaims and third party claims by defence counsel regional differences (some local bars are more collegial than others)

Our attorneys will review your medical evaluation, ask questions about your injuries, and consult with experts to determine the value of your claim.

Do you have questions about a possible medical malpractice claim involving a delay in diagnosis of cancer?

Do you have questions about a possible medical malpractice claim due to an error in detection or misinterpretation of mammogram studies?

Do you have questions about a possible medical malpractice claim due to a failure to diagnose or a delay in diagnosis of breast cancer?

You should also talk to a product liability lawyer about the possibility of getting compensation for your medical expenses and other damages through a product liability claim against the drug manufacturer, or some other party responsible for the defect.

We offer special terms for medical negligence claims for union members across the UK — visit our trade unions page to find out more about what you're entitled to as part of your membership.

Thompsons Solicitors» specialist medical negligence claim lawyers answer some of the most frequently asked questions about making a medical negligence claim as a result of hernia mesh complications.

If the gas station owner or operator knew about the oil slick and was negligent in failing to either clean it up or post a warning, you may be able to make a premises liability claim and seek compensation of your medical bills, lost wages, disability and disfigurement, pain and suffering, and loss of normal life.

Any claimant medical negligence practitioner will be able to provide a plethora of examples about how the behaviour of the NHSLA has driven up the cost of clinical negligence claims to the NHS.

You should get your workers comp benefits started immediately after the accident and then worry about the personal injury claim that won't get going until you have finished all of your medical care.

If you're serious about filing a personal injury claim, it is important that you maintain and send medical records, medical bills, repair bills, and evidence of lost wages to your attorney.

I thought I would post some information about these common auto collisions claims that I have seen and personally worked with as well as what you can do to protect yourself against having to be responsible for medical expenses, lost income and other consequences of being involved in a car accident in Los Angeles.

Further to my previous posts about Independent Medical Exams in BC Supreme Court Injury Claims unpublished reasons for judgement recently came to my attention (Hou v. Kirmani BCSC Vancouver Registry, 20091119) dealing with the ability for a Defendant to have an injured party undergo multiple exams where the first defence expert feels an opinion from a second expert would be of benefit.

Others will have mental anguish about whether doctors will refuse to treat them after learning of their medical malpractice claim.

The last post in our series about the essential elements of a medical malpractice claim is about causation.