News tagged with reliability
Reliability of neuroscience research questioned
New research has questioned the reliability of neuroscience studies, saying that conclusions could be misleading due to small sample sizes.
Neuroscience
Apr 10, 2013 |
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Four-year-olds know that being right is not enough
As they grow, children learn a lot about the world from what other people tell them. Along the way, they have to figure out who is a reliable source of information. A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Interactions between drugs can also be measured at lowest doses
Clinical pharmacologists at Heidelberg University Hospital have achieved major progress for improving the reliability of drugs. In a pharmacological study, they showed for the first time that interactions between drugs can ...
Medications
Apr 11, 2013 |
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Medicare and Medicaid CT scan measure is unreliable: study
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have published findings that question the reliability of a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) quality measure. The study, "Assessment of Medicare's Imaging ...
Cancer
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Depression: Why life can feel out of control
People with depression often feel their life is out of control. It can evoke feelings that their life is pointless or by merely existing bad things can happen. Research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 18, 2013 |
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New technology represents next-generation tool for detecting substandard and counterfeit medicines
A new platform for detecting substandard and counterfeit medicines using microfluidics has been recognized with a grant from Saving Lives at Birth's "Grand Challenge through Development." Dubbed PharmaCheck, the technology ...
Medications
Jul 26, 2012 |
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Methods in most prediction studies do not follow guidelines
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Walter Bouwmeester of the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands and colleagues investigate the reporting and methods of prediction studies in 2008 in six top international genera ...
Other
May 22, 2012 |
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Researcher apologizes for study of gay therapy
(AP) -- A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what's called reparative therapy.
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 19, 2012 |
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