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Merck & Co is the 7th largest pharmaceutical company in the world based on annual sales, which reached $25,236m in 2009. They have developed 14 vaccines and over 40 prescription products in the...
Boehringer Ingelheim is a global pharmaceutical company with annual sales of over $16 billion, making it the 10th largest pharmaceutical company in the world based on sales. With bases in 47 c...
Sanofi-Aventis is a global pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $40,871m, placing it the second highest in the world. Although Sanofi-Aventis products are for a a very wide range of health...
Brilinta (TM) - ticagrelor, AstraZeneca's new heart drug
Brilinta - ticagrelor, AstraZeneca's new heart drug is a blood-thinning medicine designed to prevent dangerous blood clots in patients with serious chest pain or previous heart attacks. It re...
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus SLE
Lupus is an autoimmune disease characterized by acute and chronic inflammation of various tissues of the body. Because the antibodies and accompanying cells of inflammation can affect tissues anywhe...
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GMO Statistics Part 35. The Soul of Statistics.
Some previous posts in this seriesGMO Statistics Part 34. The Power of Confirmation Bias GMO Statistics Part 33. Headstrong old men can hold up science for decadesGMO Statistics Part 32. Scien...
This final installment of the Interpreting Statistics column will focus on non-parametric statistics. As usual, instead of diving into the marsh of the math behind the statistics, this discussion...
Prescription Drugs Cause More Than Half of Deadly Drug Overdoses
The United States has a drug problem, but it's not the illegal substances for which a drug war has been waged since the 1970s. More than half of fatal drug overdoses in 2010, the most recent year for...
Experimental biology: Sometimes Bayesian statistics are better
David Vaux argues that experimental biologists should be better versed in classical statistics (Nature492, 180–181; 201210.1038/492180a). We suggest that they might also join the shift to Bayesian s...
Malibu, CA (PRWEB) April 29, 2013 The prescription drug epidemic has been making headlines recently as the statistics regarding abuse rates continue to increase, and now the latest group being high...
Vital Statistics and Their Importance in Scientific Research
What is demography? It’s the science of population: distribution, structure, change of vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages, etc.). Achille Guillard published “Elements of human statistics...
Statistics: Number-crunching in the raw
David Vaux welcomes a primer on how statistics mesh with life, from salesmen's spin to political polls.
UofL to host Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference
(University of Louisville) As a way to continue their participation in the International Year of Statistics, the Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics is hosting the Southern Regional Council...
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Insight Into the Epidemic.
The emergence of clinically efficacious prescription drugs to treat pain, anxiety, and learning disorders is accompanied by the potential for nonmedical use. Prescription drug abuse has become a moder...
Receipt of Systemic Corticosteroids during Asthma Visits to US Emergency Departments, 2007-2009.
Background. National Asthma Education and Prevention Program recommended emergency department (ED) asthma treatment includes both providing systemic corticosteroids in the ED and a steroid prescriptio...
Evaluation of a modified prescription form to address prescribing errors.
Purpose The impact of a modified paper prescription form on the occurrence of prescribing errors was evaluated. Methods Rural primary care providers practicing in the United States who wrote paper pre...
Motivations for non-medical prescription drug use: a mixed methods analysis.
Despite a dramatic increase in the nonmedical use of prescription drugs among illicit drug users, their motives for abusing prescription drugs are still largely unknown. The objective of this study wa...
Prescription drug laws, drug overdoses, and drug sales in New York and Pennsylvania.
Drug overdose mortality nearly doubled in the United States from 1999 to 2004, with most of the increase due to prescription drug overdoses. Studying mortality rates in states that did not experience...
