In the absence of better data about the benefits of lymph node transfer, however, insurers may balk at covering the procedure, which involves expensive, complex microvascular surgery to connect tiny blood vessels.
Mechanick also warned that the data about the benefits of dark chocolate should not mean replacing other high blood pressure therapy with chocolate.
This reliance is understandable, as many faculty members teach as they were taught, but this level of reliance is also surprising given the emerging empirical data about the benefits of active learning.
Without pressure, encouraging clinicians to collect data about the benefits and risks of unproven treatments, we'll be no further along in understanding the value of these therapies ten years from now than we are today.
For instance, in its revisions, California missed an opportunity to collect data about potential benefits of medical marijuana, as well as its long-term risks.
It is very true, as proven by endless data about the benefits of easy access to public goods show (roads, hospitals, universities, and universal health care).
Imagine if web browsers and smartphones, the gateways through which people make these choices, were truly watching out for people and helped them forecast the consequences of clicks (based on real data about what benefits and costs it actually had?).
However, there are limited empiric data about potential benefits at present.
Despite years of diabetes research, specific data about the benefits of diabetes treatment on older adults are scarce.
There are no data about the benefits of abiraterone or enzalutamide in this situation, but three large randomised phase III clinical trials are ongoing and enrolment of patients with M0 CRPC in such trials is encouraged.
