Poor treatment is rife: a study by the Institute of Medicine has suggested that medical error is the country's eighth-largest cause of death.For decades, American health-care spending has outstripped income growth, by an average of 2.5 percentage points a year.
The research literature is rife with studies of low rates for colonoscopies, mammograms and an array of genetic testing.
Medical literature is rife with studies about how the practice of medicine does not meet expectations for acceptable care.
In summary, despite the availability of software and a wide array of methods that address inter-gene correlation, the literature on microarray analysis is rife with studies that use independence assumption methods.
To map out the historic distribution and range of a species whose taxonomic record is, to quote the latest study, "rife with errors," Dr. Metcalf sampled skin, gill, muscle and bone from trout specimens collected in Colorado and New Mexico from 1857 to 1889, before the state and federal efforts to propagate and stock native trout were ramped up.
Limiting its use without clear evidence of its impact on wildlife, based on the evidence of a single study rife with issues, has some scientists concerned that environmental science could be replaced with environmental compliance.
But the medical literature is rife with case studies.
A new report, commissioned by the federal government, finds the field is rife with poorly done studies, misdiagnoses and tests that can give misleading results.
The second new book, "The Scientific Sherlock Holmes," by James O'Brien, is a stolid academic treatise, rife with abbreviations: "A Study in Scarlet" is referred to as "STUD" throughout, Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" as "RUEM," "The Speckled Band" as "SPEC".
Rife (1955), in his study on students at Ohio State University, USA, observed that arches were more common on the left middle finger of right-handed students than left-handed students.
