The Tigers, back-to-back European champions in 2001 and 2002, were rattled and showed none of the composure or the clinical approach they demonstrated in demolishing Gloucester in the Guinness Premiership final last week.
On the establishment side, hard-liners with a cold, clinical approach to healing and no appreciation for the humanistic, intuitive aspects of helping people in distress, and who are dismissive as my psychiatrist was of any connection between nutrition and mental health, provide ideological bullets for alternative practitioners, who are able to portray themselves as offering a more humane, caring, supportive context for healing.
You can find this approach in clinical practice when patients are processed in 15-minute blocks during which a prescriber hunts for symptoms and uses a loosely crafted, often-times commercially driven, algorithm to pick which medication(s) to prescribe.
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Instrumental variable analysis attempts to do just that, standing in contrast to the standard approach used in clinical studies.
That would be the standard approach in a clinical trial.
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Meanwhile, ViroPharma in Exton, Pa. hopes to launch clinical trials of a more radical approach: preventing outbreaks by infecting high-risk patients with innocuous strains to prevent toxic strains from taking hold.
Kubrick would reveal an affinity with that perspective as he developed his signature filmmaking style, an icily formal, deliberately paced approach that conveys a clinical, third-person-omniscient point of view.
However, at a Medtronic analyst meeting at the conference, lead trial investigator Gust Bardy from the Seattle Institute for Clinical Research insisted that such an approach would not be medically valid.
Meanwhile, ViroPharma (nasdaq: VPHM - news - people ) in Exton, Pa. hopes to launch clinical trials of a more radical approach: preventing outbreaks by infecting high-risk patients with innocuous strains to prevent toxic strains from taking hold.
So we believe that this is a promising approach that can have important clinical applications.
Several top experts in conducting clinical trials agreed with Peto's general approach and were skeptical of any link between cancer and Vytorin.
In Syracuse, New York, clinical neuropsychologist Dominic A Carone, 37, took this approach on Saturday morning when he sat down with his son and daughter, aged seven and eight.
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Larger, more rigorous clinical trials of gadolinium-texaphyrin have just started, and the approach is also being tried for prostate, pancreatic and neck tumours.
This second approach is easier, because drugs that aim at enzymes have tended to fare better in clinical trials than those directed at receptors.
This approach could work well for hospitals seeking to share data and increase coordination with business and clinical partners outside the four walls of their own organizations.
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Merck is taking a different approach, betting that an especially deep understanding of a biological pathway will allow it to design better clinical trials.
The quantitative approach to networking has been exacerbated by technology, says psychiatrist Dr. Reef Karim, an assistant clinical professor at UCLA and director of The Control Center in Beverly Hills, CA. Social media networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter offer a continuous feedback loop, where success may be graded by follower counts and rabid updating.
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