Word: spikeness
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...research, which was funded by the Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, among other sources, showed that for two of the drugs, direct advertising had no impact on prescription patterns for either group. Sales for Zelnorm did experience a short-lived spike at the start of the marketing campaign, but fell back to a similar prescription rate after a few years...
...pressure on land resources. The FAO estimates that about 20% of the planet's pastureland has been degraded by grazing animals, and increased demand for meat means increased demand for animal feed - much of the world's grain production is fed to animals rather than to humans. (The global spike in grain prices over the past year is in large part due to the impact on grain supplies of the growing demand for meat.) The expanded production of meat has been facilitated by industrial feedlots, which bleed antibiotics and other noxious chemicals. And of course, the human health impact...
...community of more than 1,200 of scientists from across MIT, Harvard, and Harvard’s 17 affiliated teaching hospitals. The Kendall Square-based institute also currently has 330,000 square feet of laboratory space. Experts say that the establishment of the Broad Institute has caused a spike in genomic and psychiatric research, with Broad-affiliated researchers having published some 350 scientific papers over the past four years. “My rough estimate is that a scientific paper emerges about once every three days from collaborations that have come out of this institute,” Eric...
...Ohio A Spike in Teen Suicides A sharp increase in the teen-suicide rate in 2004 was largely sustained in 2005, according to a new study. Some worry that warnings of a link between antidepressants and youth suicide is actually fueling the trend by dissuading at-risk teens from taking medication. Alcohol, access to guns and suicides among teenage U.S. troops were also cited as possible factors in the spike...
...Experts say that the establishment of the Broad Institute has caused a spike in genomic and psychiatric research, with Broad-affiliated researchers having published some 350 scientific papers over the past four years...