Diagnostic tests are more accurate than estimates suggest
... the initial tests. This knowledge could well have biased their conclusions. The researchers believe that, "poor study designs may reflect the situation prevalent in routine clinical practice where test results may not be immediately confirmed due to resource and other implications. Thus diagnostic evaluati...New UNC research finds high rate of chlamydia in U.S. young adults
...ccal infections are real rather than the result of biased estimates." The differences may be partially responsible for considerable variations in reproductive health among whites, blacks and other racial and ethnic groups, he said. For example, black women have a 33 percent higher incidence of ectopic pregn...New research suggests two brain areas critical for short-term memory
... switched on to complete the trial, the memory was biased by past experience. This strategy allowed the hippocampus to anticipate future events based on past outcomes. With the rat trials, the hippocampus did not start from scratch. Because of this strategy in some cases it would "expect" the trials to alte...Pharmaceutical marketing tactics hold little sway with prescribing physicians
...Physicians recognize that information presented is biased toward the promoted drug and is unlikely to be objective or even accurate. Thus, physicians often discount information received from a sales representative. As physicians have access to alternative sources of information, which are more highly rega...Very shy children may process some facial expressions differently
...the researchers write. "These data suggest that a biased pattern of processing emotional information of social relevance can be recognized and characterizedearly in life."...The Lancet calls for the creation of a world institute for risk evaluation
...r own particular perspectives, producing solutions biased by their own specific ideologies. Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, comments: "The power of independent technical evidence is consistently undervalued. What is needed is a World Institute for Risk Evaluation-- WIRE. This new institute would be an...Routine use of nose-to-stomach tube slows recovery from abdominal surgery
...was not randomly assigned, which may have produced biased results. To conduct a more rigorous analysis including numerous recent studies, Nelson and his co-authors identified 28 randomized controlled trials of emergency or elective abdominal surgeries. They did not include studies of laparoscopic surgeries ...Rat whisking may provide insight into debilitating eye disorder
...this finding will help push the field from a focus biased by anatomy to a focus centered on functionality of neural circuits," added David Kleinfeld, a professor of physics at UCSD. "Also, this circuit could serve as a model system to deepen our understanding of a pathology in the human eyeblink circuit." ...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
... studies have shown such overall impressions to be biased in a variety of ways. "Our snapshots revealed that the patients were in good moods the vast majority of the time, and that their moods were not substantially worse than those of the healthy people." "This is further evidence that people adapt emotion...Scientific evidence for diets: don't believe everything you read
...ds of reporting". Inadequate reporting can lead to biased results being accepted as valid. The quality of reporting for weight loss studies has to improve if we are ever to understand obesity....... Women are under-represented Clinical trials are biased towards men as, to date, women have been grossly under-represented in clinical trial design, enrolment and analysis. This directly affects treatment practices, including recommendations on drug and procedure usage. Professor Priori states, "We nee...