Today in Ohio @BarackObama cited a study authored by a former staffer, claimed it wasn't written by "my staff".
The Commonwealth Fund, in a study authored by David Squires, compared the U.S. to other OECD countries to see whether we spend more per medical incident than our worldwide colleagues.
If consensus could not be reached, disagreements were resolved by a third study author (LS).
The final 221 interviews were conducted and coded by a team of 10 experienced and culturally competent field workers led by a study co-author (BB) who conducted over a quarter of the interviews.
Some diseases, like cancer and HIV/AIDS, get funded at better rates than predicted based on the disease burden, while others like stroke and depression fall short, according to an analysis by study author Hamilton Moses III of Alerion Advisors.
Grouping the studies according to the definition of frailty provided by the study author was a useful way of dealing with this heterogeneity.
In the general population, the number of people with the altruistic variations of the COMT gene varies by ethnicity, says study author Christian Montag, a psychologist at the University of Bonn.
§Cardiac disease as defined by study author.
As emphasized by the study authors, aspirin is an old and generally safe drug, available over the counter, that can be very dangerous in people with have bleeding problems or low platelets (blood clotting cells).
A new study, authored by Adelson, Pinker, Rogerio Lilenbaum, and Donald K. K. Lee, among others, attempts to answer this.
