The phrase "approved a study" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone or an organization has given formal consent or authorization for a study to be conducted.
Example: "The committee approved a study on the effects of climate change on local wildlife."
Alternatives: "authorized a study" or "sanctioned a study".
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a study in traumatized crime victims who have failed to respond to antidepressants.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has approved a study in which a California county will give government-grown marijuana to 60 AIDS patients to assess its benefits.
The outcome is also of interest because Congress has approved a study of whether to designate the Great Falls Historic District as a national park.
The legal challenges had mostly concerned procedural matters, with litigants from Pelham contending, among other things, that Mount Vernon acted improperly when it approved a study of the property and rezoned the site to allow the project.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey singled out Stewart International Airport as the most likely site of a fourth airport for the New York metropolitan region yesterday when it approved a study of how it could make use of the airport.
On August 26 , 2010 the school board approved a study of the district's facilities which would look into that proposal, or an alternative of building a fifth middle school in East Allentown to reduce the district's middle school student population per building.
Asked if he would approve a study that, like Dr. Togias's, gave volunteers a gram of hexamethonium, Dr. Lepay said, "I have a personal problems with that concept, but I don't want to go out and say what makes a decision on the part of our review division".
How likely is it that an IRB would approve a study design in which the investigator states that, according to the published literature and the FDA, some children respond to a food color challenge with adverse behavioral effects?
Last month, the federal Government Accountability Office and a congressional committee revealed that Coast IRB had approved a fake study of a fictitious FDA-approved device.
And this week, San Francisco approved a feasibility study for its own network.
The necessary improvements would cost perhaps $2.5 billion, Mr. Naomi said, adding that the figure was only an estimate because Congress had not approved a full study.
