It is one anecdotal case, but it's immensely exciting.
However, most epidemiologists would regard these studies as more reliable evidence than the anecdotal case reports and newspaper reports which originally raised concerns about these risks.
Like so many things in concussion management, it has been supported by anecdotal case studies but is unverified by standardized clinical trials.
(See the popular book from a few years ago, "What Should I Do With My Life?" by Po Bronson, for scores of anecdotal case studies).
The gym is virtual, but there is an increasing, if anecdotal case that the mental health boost is real – agoraphobics, depressives, anyone who would normally spend their weekend dragging body between bed and couch, have received a life-giving jolt of the great outdoors in the past few days.
Instead, Ms. Gutmann presents a largely anecdotal case, written with a kind of jaundiced hipness ("This is one area where we absolutely have to cleave to a certain bottom line"), that often seems aimed at scoring debating points rather than judiciously balancing policy alternatives.
Although anecdotal case reports of the problem and animal studies have appeared in medical journals, nobody has conducted a rigorous clinical trial to look at whether there is a higher incidence of the problem in people taking the drug than in people who do not, he said.
The monitoring and analysis of electronic medical records, some scientists say, have the potential to make every patient a participant in a vast, ongoing clinical trial, pinpointing treatments and side effects that would be hard to discern from anecdotal case reports or expensive clinical trials.
