Health care outcome boost needs better studies
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... are well-documented and remarkable. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) on the use of the model with war-traumatized children in Kosovo -- the first rct of any intervention with war-traumatized children -- was published in the prestigious Journal of Clinical Psychiatry in 2008; it showed an 80% decreas...Paving the Way for Peace in the Middle East with Mind-Body Skills
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...ld be necessary to verify the effects of CRAI, but to conduct such a study on patients with highly lethal SAP seems to be unethical in Japan. A future rct might consider enrolling patients with relatively mild and less fatal SAP group like the present study. This study suggests that CRAI using gabexate m...Catalyst Biosciences Appoints Dr. Todd Lorenz Chief Medical Officer
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