Follow-up studies now in the planning stage are expected to use prospective as well as retrospective data.
In follow-up studies, it's not clear that raising HDL by blocking CETP works.
And follow-up studies suggest that with time this figure may rise to three-quarters.
Barker and Phillips recommended doing follow-up studies to confirm their data, and also to see if new e-prescribing systems are having an impact on the July effect.
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Mr Lampl, who is an adviser to Education Secretary David Blunkett as well as the Higher Education Funding Council, said universities should now do their own follow-up studies.
In this scenario, however, there can be many unexpected findings that have not been reported in medical journals and likely never will be the subject of published follow-up studies because the problem of researching these multitudinous findings simply cannot scale.
But according to follow-up studies reported by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the resulting average dose of radiation that about 2 million people in the TMI area received amounted to 1 millirem, six times less than exposure to a single standard chest x-ray.
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Additional studies with longer follow-up periods are needed to confirm or refute the link, she adds.
Merck denies there's any such problem for either Vioxx or follow-up Arcoxia, and plans to conduct new studies to prove it.
Dr. Jackson said different designs of the underlying studies and the duration of follow-up could have influenced the results.
While some top-tier science was presented at the conference, there was too much time given to claims of cure that had little to support them but patient testimonials, small studies with no long-term follow-up, and, to be blunt, some science that has nothing but the backing of a single very optimistic scientist looking to attract a grant or an investor.
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