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• New Statistics Toolkit Book will Help you to Interpret the Statistical Evidence Provided by Quantitative Studies

  - 2008-01-29

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c80974) has announced the addition of "Statistics Toolkit" to their offering. This concise book will help you to interpret the statistical evidence provided by quantitative studies and to plan how to work with data in your own clinical research. Following the successful format...

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• Ovid expanded its partnership with Oxford University Press to provide more than 300 OUP medical and health science ebooks.(Biomedical)(Brief article)

  - 2007-09-01

  Ovid expanded its partnership with Oxford University Press to provide more than 300 OUP medical and health science ebooks, including more than 80 new titles, for subscription and purchase on the Books@Ovid platform (www.ovid .com).

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• Military test veterans suffer "Gulf War" effects.

  - 2006-08-01

  Byline: Debora MacKenzie Aug 01, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Veterans of chemical weapons tests at a British military laboratory have a "lower quality of life" than the general population. A new study shows that people who participated in such...

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• Under a two-year collaboration, GE Healthcare and Oxford University will study colorectal cancer

  - 2006-01-31

  Under a two-year collaboration, GE Healthcare and Oxford University will study colorectal cancer in order to develop a disease management project using imaging and genomic pathology.

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• Welfare of the laying hen; proceedings

  - 2005-06-01

  SF481 2003-026169 0-85199-813-5 Welfare of the laying hen; proceedings. Poultry Science Association. Meeting (2003: Bristol, England) Ed. by G. C. Perry. (Poultry science symposium series; 27) CABI Publishing, [c]2004 430 p. $140.00 There has been much public concern during the past few...

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• Summer and investing researchers.

  - 2003-08-01

  Many visiting MBL investigators use marine organisms as models for studying basic biological processes. Research using squids, sea urchins, horseshoe crabs, dogfish, clams, toadfish, and sea slugs, for example, has increase our fundamental understanding of a broad range of diseases and medical conditions including cancer, diabetes,...

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• Found: the holy grail of heart drugs.

  - 2001-12-05

  Dec 6, 2001 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- A group of drugs called statins have been used in Australia to control cholestorol levels for more than 10 years. New research at Oxford University in Great Britain has revealed that the use ...

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• A Planning Framework for Community Empowerment Goals Within Health Promotion

  BNET - 2000-08-25

  This article presents a framework intended to assist planners, implementers and evaluators to systematically consider community empowerment goals within top-down health promotion programming. The framework 'unpacks' the tensions in health promotion at each stage of the more conventional, top-down programme cycle, by presenting a parallel 'empowerment' track. The framework also...

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• OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Is there an 'ideal' diet? Does it change for those with stomach disorders?

  - 1998-12-22

  M2 PRESSWIRE-22 December 1998-OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Is there an 'ideal' diet? Does it change for those with stomach disorders? Does it change as we age? C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:181298 * Good Food for Bad Stomachs Henry D. Janowitz,...

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• Moderation and mortality

  - 1995-02-01

  New data from England's prestigious Oxford University provides important new evidence that moderate ethanol consumption can favorably increase the odds of living longer. Results of a 13-year follow-up of 12,000 male British physicians finds that moderate drinkers not only had fewer deaths from heart disease, they had fewer deaths from...

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