Conventional approaches to studies that use large numbers of patients in search of small effects are costly and time consuming, and it would be impossible to test all the potentially valuable neuroprotective agents because of a lack of time, money, or subjects.
To the extent that these effects are costly or otherwise negative to society, researchers must join policy makers in finding ways to alleviate these negative effects.
The effects are costly: the World Bank estimates that countries blighted by stunting and other consequences of malnutrition lose at least 2-3% of their gross domestic product, as well as billions of dollars in forgone productivity and avoidable health care spending each year.
Daily oral triple therapy is effective at halting HIV disease progression, but can have toxic effects and is costly.
That will end once Darwinism weeds out the losers from the winners, but the effects will be costly in every direction for years to come.
But Schauer said that the many medications that people with diabetes take over their lifetimes — as well as the monitoring of their effects — also are costly.
Although randomized controlled trials remain the prime approach for investigating treatment effects, these are costly and logistically demanding.
Moreover, TBAs may have side effects and are costly [ 6] and the efficacy of any given TBA in a given patient is unpredictable [ 7, 8].
Special effects are so costly these days that studios can ill afford a megaflop.
Though its effects are very costly to society and, to many, immoral, tobacco is mainly a scourge for smokers and those who live and work with them.
