In October 2008, the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing published a systematic review of omega-3 fatty acids as a treatment for bipolar disorder.

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The third establishes an inter-agency task force to lead a systematic review of detention policies and procedures and a review of all individual cases.

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In 2007, researchers at Arizona State University decided to do a systematic review of all the literature on the efficacy of prayer to see what picture emerged.

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The authors' analysis -- which was not a systematic review -- was performed mainly for entertainment reasons, although the authors stress that there is a larger lesson to be learned.

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The Congress should insist that, until the opportunity afforded by such hearings for a systematic review of that process and the direction of decision-making it is producing, a moratorium should be imposed on further decontrol actions.

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To help handle all the new drugs that will be entering experimental tests on humans, Pfizer also recruited Briggs Morrison, who oversaw the oncology pipeline at Merck and was involved in a systematic review of Merck's clinical trials.

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To help handle all the new drugs that will be entering experimental tests on humans, Pfizer also recruited Briggs Morrison, who oversaw the oncology pipeline at Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) and was involved in a systematic review of Merck's clinical trials.

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Pre-operative statin therapy can reduce the chance of post-operative atrial fibrillation and shortens the stay on the intensive care unit (ICU) and in the hospital in patients who undergo cardiac surgery, according to a new systematic review by Cochrane researchers.

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Rather than initiating research, it is designed to evaluate existing studies, in a process known as systematic review.

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The West-Clark review is a prime example of the sort of systematic dumbing-down the Brothers have achieved of the military's "situational awareness" - and that of the American government more generally - about the threat posed by them and their fellow stealth jihadists.

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