Errors in diagnosis of depression lead to over and under diagnosis in primary care
...ncet , written by Dr Alex Mitchell of University of Leicester together with Dr Amol Vaze, and Dr Sanajay Rao of Leicester Partnership Trust. The study pooled 41 trials from nine countries that used robust outcome standard of a semi-structured interview to assess depression. The researchers found that GPs w...Gene linked to increasingly common type of blood cancer
...ndividuals who were HIV negative. Dr. Brown said future studies could include HIV-positive individuals, if enough samples were made available. This pooled genome-wide association study used by the UC Berkeley-TGen investigators allowed them to screen more than 500,000 SNPs. The nearly 90 most significant...URAC and CARF International Announce New Survey Tool for Health Care Case Management Studies
... from key stakeholders and assist organizations in improving organizational well-being and performance improvement. It is a national and international pooled data system, featuring questionnaires with a core set of universal items for benchmark comparisons, an optional set of standardized items, and the abi...New research identifies more effective tools for detection of colorectal cancer
...d international gastroenterology meetings from 2005 to 2007. Seventeen studies, consisting of 274,265 colonoscopies, met the inclusion criteria. pooled perforation rate in therapeutic colonoscopies was found to be 0.066 percent or approximately 1 in 1500 and in diagnostic colonoscopies was found to be...PRA International Opens Additional Drug Safety Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil
...,000 Expedited Safety Reports to regulatory authorities 250 Cumulative Safety Reports to regulatory authorities 5 data integration and pooled analysis projects Hosted 21 client pharmacovigilance audits Contributed to 3 FDA Approvals About PRA Internation...Perforomist Inhalation Solution data to be presented today at American Thoracic Society conference
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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France, December 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NicOx S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris: COX) today announced positive results of a pre-specified pooled analysis of 2,734 patients with osteoarthritis (OA) from the 301, 302 and 303 pivotal phase 3 studies for naproxcinod. Both doses of ...Schering-Plough Expands Vicriviroc Phase II Study in Treatment-Naive Patients With HIV
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... searching for the genomic hot spots in bipolar disorder, these researchers pooled their data for maximal statistical power and unearthed surprising results,"...gnals of illness association. To boost their odds, Sklar and colleagues pooled data from the latter two previously published and one new study of their ow...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 9, 2008
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... scan the entire group at a small fraction of the cost of scanning each person's material individually. The genetic material of the healthy group was pooled and scanned separately, again at a fraction of the cost of individual scans. The researchers then zeroed in on the gene variations that occurred more...Sleep quantity affects morning testosterone levels in older men
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... program included over 5,300 patients. More than 2,450 subjects with type 1 or type 2 diabetes were randomly assigned to treatment with AFRESA in the pooled controlled Phase 2/3 clinical studies. In addition, the clinical pharmacology program included more than 450 subjects exposed to AFRESA in single-dos...InterMune Reports Results of Two Phase 3 CAPACITY Studies of Pirfenidone in IPF
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Description:... the Master Plate (a process which may lose specific clones). Instead, the Sub-Plates were generated first and the wells from each Sub-Plate were then pooled to generate the Master Plate. To guarantee that clones from different wells in the Master Plate were each independently-derived, the Sub-Plates were g...Rapid-Screen Arrayed cDNA Library Panels Master Plates -Human Colon from OriGene Technologies
Description:... the Master Plate (a process which may lose specific clones). Instead, the Sub-Plates were generated first and the wells from each Sub-Plate were then pooled to generate the Master Plate. To guarantee that clones from different wells in the Master Plate were each independently-derived, the Sub-Plates were g...Rapid-Screen Arrayed cDNA Library Panels Master Plates -Human Lung from OriGene Technologies
Description:... the Master Plate (a process which may lose specific clones). Instead, the Sub-Plates were generated first and the wells from each Sub-Plate were then pooled to generate the Master Plate. To guarantee that clones from different wells in the Master Plate were each independently-derived, the Sub-Plates were g...