Of the 16 studies that reported benefit, six were based only on self-reported data (or provider or partner reported) and not on objective data or a validated reporting tool.
And, earlier this week, the White House announced its intention to cut fifty-four billion dollars from unspecified federal programs that, as the Times reported, benefit schoolchildren, poor families, scientific research, health-care services, and overseas aid; the full sum would then be spent on a military buildup.
Some authors have reported benefit following lumbar puncture in patients with cough headache [3, 4, 13].
All three patients treated their attacks throughout the pregnancy on a regular basis and reported benefit (Table 4).
Some authors have reported benefit of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, others of electrical cortical stimulation by stimulating the Heschl's gyrus or secondary auditory areas.
Sprouse-Blum [8] reported benefit from applying frozen icepacks targeting carotid arteries at the front of the neck in migraine treatment.
Also in a review of 16 previous studies utilizing PBLT, Stoller (2006) noted that the most common reported benefit is authenticity in language use and processes within projects.
Although the most prevalent reported benefit of Azospirillum has been its capacity of fixing N2, an increasing number of studies describes other properties that imply growth-promotion.
Participants in this program reported benefit from developing these skills but also significant anxiety about desistance from problematic drug use and crime in the post-release period without therapeutic and practical support.
The reported benefit of a short (7 – 10 days) percutaneous trial might represent a placebo effect in a cohort of subjects who usually have unrealistic expectations on the surgery, after having failed most of the available treatments.
