Sentence examples for favorable studies from inspiring English sources

Abbott was also helped by favorable studies at a meeting of heart surgeons who implant stents, the mesh sleeves used to prop open clogged arteries.

As a result, a drug company can cherry-pick favorable studies for publication and file away studies that show its drug in a negative light.

But Geico won't specify the margin of error or its definition of a satisfied customer, and it won't say whether departing customers were surveyed or if it's sitting on less favorable studies.

Despite the many proven antiinflammatory properties of corticosteroids, the wealth of favorable studies utilizing various animal models of septic shock, and many anecdotal positive reports in clinical sepsis, until recently multicenter clinical trials had generally failed to support this form of treatment (Anon. 1987; Bone et al. 1987).

Sponsors with control over publication can decide which studies to submit, possibly choosing preferentially to submit favorable studies and thus biasing the overall literature on safety or efficacy (Blumenstyk 2003; Dickersin et al. 1992; Easterbrook et al. 1991; Goozner and DelViscio 2004).

The action follows a civil lawsuit filed this month by the New York State attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, that accused the company of misleading doctors by publicizing a favorable study of Paxil for pediatric depression while playing down other trials that showed the drug did not work better than a placebo.

Other studies have shown an association between company sponsorship and favorable study outcome [22].

Previous studies in a variety of biomedical fields have found that financial ties to drug companies are associated with favorable study conclusions [7].