Sexist jokes favor the mental mechanisms that justify violence against women

This release is available in Spanish . Sexist jokes (and all the variants of this kind of humour) favour the mental mechanisms which urge to violence and battering against women in individuals with macho attitudes. Those are the conclusions of a study carried out at the University of Gran...

Inadequate proof to justify routine prostate screen

According to a recent survey there is not enough proof or evidence that the benefits of prostate cancer screening make it worthwhile offering to all men. While the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test can detect cancer early,// there is controversy over how useful the test really is. The US Prevent...

Federal Judge Sentences Defendants Who Perpetrated $10.9 Million Medicare Fraud HIV Infusion Scheme

...h and bogus treatments from both clinics. At sentencing, Milanes acknowledged that she was paid extra by Marrero to manipulate blood samples to justify the false claims. Marrero testified that Pacheco worked directly for him to determine what drugs would be falsely billed to Medicare. On March ...

Pre-chewed Food Could Transmit HIV

...mens probably increased their blood HIV levels, increasing the likelihood of transmission. "These three cases are persuasive enough that they justify cautioning HIV-positive caregivers against giving infants pre-chewed foods," Gaur said. "Also, we hope increased awareness of this possible mode of tr...

Expert Statement Issued about Lantus(R) Following Recent Publications in Diabetologia

...ns and their potential magnitude are such that, individually or in aggregate, these studies provide inconsistent and inconclusive results which do not justify new clinical recommendations to patients." This statement, signed by 14 international experts following their independent, rigorous and thor...

Omega-3 Fatty Acid Falls Short in Alzheimer's Trials

...tion in normal people before you make a recommendation," Thies said. "In high doses, DHA does have side effects, so you would want to see a benefit to justify the risk you are taking. We need more work for that." More information The latest information on Alzheimer's disease is available from the Al...

UCI Medical Affiliates, Inc.'s Internal Investigation Leads to SEC Action and Criminal Charges Against Former Executive Officer

...her than expensing them in their entirety as they were incurred, thereby causing the Company to overstate its net earnings in the affected periods. To justify capitalizing some of these expenses, Mr. Wells altered invoices from contractors performing work on his personal residences to indicate that the work ...

Crestor Patent Invalidity Evidence Uncovered By Article One Partners Community

...ive percent (5%) of Article One's net annual profit. The result is a highly-rewarded community providing a second, citizen's review of U.S. patents to justify monopoly pricing for true innovation and energize U.S. patent reform. To learn more about Article One Partners, or to become a member of our community...

The Time To Rethink Male Circumcision Is Now, Group Says In Launching www.intactamerica.org

...HIV/AIDS epidemic. "Studies of adult men in Africa cannot be used to justify subjecting non-consenting American baby boys to irreversible surgery that w...American Academy of Pediatrics, which says any benefits are insufficient to justify recommending it. Sixteen states refuse Medicaid coverage of non-medically-n...

Intact America Launches Campaign to Change How America Thinks About Male Circumcision

...HIV/AIDS epidemic. "Studies of adult men in Africa cannot be used to justify subjecting non-consenting American baby boys to irreversible surgery that w...American Academy of Pediatrics, which says any benefits are insufficient to justify recommending it. Sixteen states refuse Medicaid coverage of non-medically-n...

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New Study Shows that Prebiotics, as Used by Jackson GI Medical, Increases Lifespan by 33%

...implications of this study are somewhat staggering," says Jackson GI Chairman and Founder Frank W. Jackson, M.D. "While the research doesn't quite yet justify a claim that Prebiotin lengthens human life, the study is nevertheless dramatic in that it clearly demonstrates the colon is a health- and life-gi...

Savient Provides Update on Pegloticase BLA

...achieve FDA approval of pegloticase; inability to manufacture commercial quantities of our products; inability to gain market acceptance sufficient to justify development and commercialization costs if our products are approved for marketing; our continuing to incur substantial net losses for the foreseeable...

Savient Announces FDA's Advisory Panel to Review Pegloticase for Treatment-Failure Gout Patients

...achieve FDA approval of pegloticase; inability to manufacture commercial quantities of our products; inability to gain market acceptance sufficient to justify development and commercialization costs if our products are approved for marketing; our continuing to incur substantial net losses for the foreseeable...

Coalition for 21st Century Medicine Issues Statement in Opposition of Genentech Petition to Restrict Lab Use of Diagnostic Tests for Physicians and Patients

...t knowing how much data support a particular claim, and whether the claim is actually unsubstantiated. A lack of information about some LDTs does not justify a revolutionary change in the regulatory regime for laboratories. Moreover, imposing FDA regulation is not needed to redress false or misleading clai...

TorreyPines Therapeutics Muscarinic Agonist NGX267 Meets Primary Endpoint in a Phase II Clinical Trial in Patients with Xerostomia

...enter. "NGX267 appears to be efficacious, safe and well tolerated in short term use. The results of this recently completed clinical trial undoubtedly justify the design and execution of longer placebo-controlled trials in a larger group of Sjogren's syndrome patients. This will help us better elucidate the ...

FDA Approves Bayer HealthCare's Kogenate(R) FS Treatment for Routine Prophylaxis in Children with Hemophilia A

... joints was more beneficial to joint health and function than 'on-demand' treatment of acute episodes of joint bleeds." Dr. Kessler added, "The data justify the consideration of prophylaxis treatment for children with severe and moderate severity hemophilia A, uncomplicated by pre-existing joint damage, to...

Variant of Mad Cow Disease May Be Transmitted by Blood Transfusions, According to Animal Study

...te of transmission for these diseases," said Dr. Houston. "Since the results are consistent with what we know about human transmission, the work helps justify the control measures put in place to safeguard human blood supplies. It also shows that blood from BSE- and scrapie-infected sheep could be used effec...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Critical to Infants, Mothers and the Seriously Ill

...utcomes, such as greater birth weight, gestational age, visual acuity, and higher mental and psychomotor developmental scores. "These studies do not justify ignoring contaminants in seafood, but they add to a large body of evidence that the benefits of eating most species of fish during pregnancy outweigh ...

Magellan Biosciences Companies to Feature Automated Products and New Tests for MRSA at the American Society for Microbiology Meeting, Booth 743

...a critical shortage of qualified laboratory personnel, and most hospital-based microbiology labs have neither the space nor throughput requirements to justify large-scale automated systems. That's why Dynex designed the easy-to-use DS2 system, which delivers sample-in/results-out automation of virtually any ...

NTMir Announces Research Grants for Epidemiology and Household Water as Source of Infection

...linical and treatment issues. Small pilot studies will be conducted so that information will be available within 12 months of grant approval, and will justify large-scale, multi-centered studies to explore the issues identified by the RIPS(TM) program. NTMir is pleased to announce that it has awarded a RIPS...

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Scientific evidence of health problems from past contamination of drinking water at Camp Lejeune is limited and unlikely to be resolved with further study

...by exposure to chemicals. The epidemiologic studies of TCE and PCE, primarily conducted in workplace settings, contained insufficient evidence to justify causal inference for any health effects. However, the committee found "limited or suggestive evidence of an association" between chronic exposure to ...

Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation awards $191,000 in grants

...f interventional radiology and patient care. This grant generally addresses a specific hypothesis and generates preliminary data that could be used to justify or strengthen subsequent comprehensive applications to national peer-reviewed funding agencies. Grants may be issued to support the initial research e...

Students least informed about environmental science are most optimistic

...environmental topics. They also demonstrated the ability to link different information sources and explanations and use evidence from those sources to justify decisions about environmental issues. At the other end of the spectrum, 42 percent of American students performed at or below Level D. Students at thi...

Substantial work ahead for water issues, say scientists at ACS' Final Report briefing

...n general, Haas said, and terrorism in water systems especially are expected to be rare. "So protecting against a rare event is hard, and it's hard to justify on its own in terms of cost benefit assessments." Haas suggested an emphasis on approaches with dual benefits not only against terrorism but also for...

High school students' paper published in prestigious college math journal

...veness of producing ethanol. Teams had 14 hours to quantify these concerns using mathematical-modeling techniques, develop and defend their models and justify their conclusions. Judging for Moody's Mega Math Challenge is blind, with judges knowing teams only by their team ID number until the final round of j...

More freedom to take risks: DFG funds the first Reinhart Koselleck Projects

...the only application requirements are a five-page project outline, although the applicants are also expected to have a proven track record in order to justify the trust and confidence placed in them. "What we are interested in is bold ideas and people who are capable of putting them into practice," explained...

Could genetic research awaken racist attitudes?

.... For example, references cannot be simplified to "black people" if the researcher is speaking of those who live in Western Africa. Scientists must justify in the study why they're studying that certain group. When a discovery is made, researchers are to ensure the evidence is defined properly in the h...

New tool to speed cancer therapy approval available

...questions: Is the empirical basis for attributing clinical potential (alone and/or in combination) convincing? Does the envisioned clinical need justify expenditure of resources? Is it feasible to identify/develop an agent against this target? If the answer to any of these questions is "no," then ...

Looming tropical disaster needs urgent action

...fy climate." Associate Professor Bradshaw says recent technical debate about likely extinction rates in the tropics could be used by governments to justify destructive policies. "We must not accept belief that all is well in the tropics, or that the situation will improve with economic development, nor...

Genomics of large marine animals showcased in the biological bulletin

...rtual symposium along with Jonathan P. Rast of the University of Toronto. "As genomes become less and less expensive to sequence, then it is easier to justify sequencing more genomes to open new areas of study." By plugging DNA sequences from a marine organism like the sea urchin into a genetic database,...

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Fast Track: FDA User Fees: Do Faster Review Times Justify the Financial Burden?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently began requiring applicants to pay significant user fees when filing applications in connection with new medical devices and biologics. Such user fees have long been required for drug-related applications, and now also are required for applications rel...

Pharmaxis to Voluntarily De-List from Nasdaq

... and the volume of Pharmaxis ADS trading in the secondary Nasdaq market. The review concluded that the benefits of the Nasdaq listing could no longer justify the related ongoing costs. Pharmaxis will file a Form 25 with the SEC on 23 July 2009 to commence the Nasdaq delisting process. It is expected ...

Does Synthetic Biology Need Synthesized Ethics?

...al issues raised by a variety of emerging technologies are often similar and familiar. The authors find that these similarities are abundant enough to justify an effort to develop an ethical framework that cuts across emerging and converging technologies. "Rather than stovepiping ethical questions into the h...

Life Science Leaders Discuss Strategies for Surviving the Financial Crisis at Yankee Public Relations Symposium

...come to the rescue. "Big pharma is in the business of delivering drugs through their channels," said Detroyer. "They need billion dollar drugs to justify supporting their channels. So if you think you're going to cash out with big pharma, don't wait for it. Find ways to incrementally increase the value ...

OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals Announces OGX-011 Treatment Provides Survival Benefit in Randomized Phase 2 Trial in Advanced Metastatic Prostate Cancer

...e for a new intervention at this stage of development to have such strong data from a randomized clinical trial." Cormack added, "These data clearly justify advancing to Phase 3 development, and we expect these data will be key in our partnering discussions for future clinical development and potential com...

Savient Announces New Date for FDA Arthritis Advisory Panel Review of KRYSTEXXA(TM) for Treatment Failure Gout

...o achieve FDA approval of KRYSTEXXA; inability to manufacture commercial quantities of our products; inability to gain market acceptance sufficient to justify development and commercialization costs if our products are approved for marketing; our continuing to incur substantial net losses for the foreseeable...

Savient Pharmaceuticals Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...o achieve FDA approval of KRYSTEXXA; inability to manufacture commercial quantities of our products; inability to gain market acceptance sufficient to justify development and commercialization costs if our products are approved for marketing; our continuing to incur substantial net losses for the foreseeable...

Disability and Poor Quality of Life Associated With Treatment Failure Gout Patients

...o achieve FDA approval of KRYSTEXXA; inability to manufacture commercial quantities of our products; inability to gain market acceptance sufficient to justify development and commercialization costs if our products are approved for marketing; our continuing to incur substantial net losses for the foreseeable...

Leading Advisory Firm, PROXY Governance, Recommends Avigen Shareholders Vote on GOLD Card to Remove Incumbent Directors and Elect BVF's Stockholder-Oriented Nominees

...d on March 27, 2009. In its report PROXY Governance notes, "Under ordinary circumstances we believe the dissidents (BVF) must clear a high bar to justify a change in control of the board, and a still higher bar to remove a sitting CEO from the board. Given that the company is now in hibernation mode and...

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter and Year End Financial Results

...e second half of 2009. "Unfortunately in this current economic environment the Company finds itself like most of our peers unable to justify supporting non-essential long term investments in preclinical research. In a move to maintain adequate liquidity to advance pixantrone to market we co...

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Biodiversity

...ity as its species are made extinct, these studies warn that the global ecosystem is destined for collapse if it further reduced in complexity. Some justify this situation not so much by a species overuse or ecosystem degradation than by their conversion in very standardized ecosystems (e.g., monocul...

Charles Darwin

...table with the respectability of his friends the Whig Cambridge Dons, even though his ideas were pushing beyond their belief that natural history must justify religion and social order. Transmutation On 17 February 1837 Lyell used his presidential address at the Geographical Society to present Ow...

Eugenics

...ing in an attempt to maintain the gene pool. Eugenic considerations also lay behind the adoption of incest laws in much of the USA, and were used to justify many anti-miscegenation laws. Some states also practiced sterilization of "imbeciles" for much of the 20th century . The US Supreme Court ruled...

Sociobiology

...hey feared that it would be used, as similar ideas had been in the past, to justify the status quo, entrench ruling elites , and legitimize authoritarian po... traits from the gene pool. Some types of sociobiological results could justify mass oppression of innocent human beings. Most people therefore find them ...

Species

...hat species rank is not justified in either. The gene flow between northern and southern magpie populations is judged to be sufficiently restricted to justify terming them subspecies (not full species); but the seamless way that local Koala populations blend one into another shows that there is substantial...

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Homoplasy

...n ... The level of homoplasy observed here appears to be low enough to justify the ... show that taking homoplasy into account only ... Homoplasy : par...e ... The level of homoplasy observed here appears to be low enough to justify the ... show that taking homoplasy into account only ... Homoplasy : par...