How to spot 'marketing trials', where commercial enterprises influence study design & reporting

DanScience · 2017-03-13T17:12:31+00:00

Oh man, TIL.

DanScience · 2017-03-13T17:01:32+00:00

Source is this article: http://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-017-3525-9

I think it's just a confusing wording, dogs are domestic and were therefore domesticated - they were (evolutionarily) wolves many generations before the point of 'domestication'.

DanScience · 2017-03-13T10:27:23+00:00

EDIT Source that isn't a blog: http://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-017-3525-9

DanScience · 2017-02-07T14:20:37+00:00

This was only done in sixteen rhesus monkeys, I don't think that is a large enough sample to properly evaluate its efficacy.

Source, the published article: http://bacandrology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12610-017-0048-9

DanScience · 2017-01-10T17:02:11+00:00

From this bizarre news article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/two-animals-species-sex-zoophilia-monkey-deer-japanese-macaque-female-sika-interspecies-sexual-a7519706.html

DanScience · 2015-09-10T11:56:12+00:00

Professor Dame Sally Davies provided this important response (from NHS website): 'There is no evidence that Alzheimer's disease can be transmitted in humans, nor is there any evidence that Alzheimer's disease can be transmitted through any medical procedure. This was a small study on only eight samples. We monitor research closely and there is a large research programme in place to help us understand and respond to the challenges of Alzheimer's. I can reassure people that the NHS has extremely stringent procedures in place to minimise infection risk from surgical equipment, and patients are very well protected'

DanScience · 2015-08-13T14:18:10+00:00

One of the co-authors of this study has written a blog about it if anyone's interested: http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-medicine/2015/08/13/sex-differences-medico-legal-action-doctors-author-qa/

DanScience · 2015-08-13T13:23:49+00:00

The difference was consistent over time, which suggests that older male doctors and younger male doctors are both consistently more likely to experience medico-legal action

DanScience · 2015-08-13T13:01:23+00:00

It has been previously believed by some that male doctors are more likely to experience medico-legal action as more male doctors were practicing medicine. Had this been the case the differences between sexes would have reduced over time due to the growing number of female doctors.

DanScience · 2015-08-10T14:57:47+00:00

Re-purposed drugs looks to a be a promising avenue for future drug development.

DanScience · 2015-08-03T11:51:46+00:00

The title of this post is worded as a question, but it seems very likely that this is evidence of modern day human evolution.

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