Tufts University data

These data were obtained in April 2002 by Mom Janice Reichert at the Tufts University Center for Study of Drug Development in Boston, Massachusetts. For further trends and analyses in this regard, see the Tufts Center s Inc pact Report, Vol. 3, Nov/Dec 2001. 

The two studies by Hansen (175) and DiMasi (109) are based on samples of NCEs frost entering human testing in specified time periods. The sample of NCEs for each study was selected from a set of data on NCEs constructed and maintained by the Tufts University Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) from an ongoing triennial survey of over 40 pharmaceutical fins. The early study examined approximately 67 NCEs, discovered and developed by 14 U.S. pharmaceutical firms that first entered human trials between 1963 and 1975. The second study... 

SOURCE Office of Technology Assessment, 1993, based on data supplied by Tufts University Center for the Study of Drug Development from its database of NCEs reported by 41 pharmaceutical firms. 

TUfts University, Center for Study of Drug Development, unpublished data provided to the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, 1990. 

Registries of birth defects can also be used to identify potentially hazardous exposures. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University have established the Birth Defects Information Center (BDIC), which will retain data supplied by hospitals and regional medical centers concerning observed birth defects. The BDIC will be available at selected locations as an automated interactive system. This effort is being supported by the March of Dimes, which also published A Compendium of Birth Defects (45). Other states and hospitals also keep registries of the spontaneous abortions that may be indicative of exposures to environmental chemicals (64). 

Barium sulfate precipitation titration from Phoenix Mars Lander. [Data from Reference 1, courtesy S. Kounaves, Tufts University.)... 

A comparison of the of the high school results with those of students taking a non-calculus physics course at Tufts University show that the high school students who have used MBL understand the concepts better than college students after lectures (figures 13.6, Pre-MBL data) and almost as well as non-calculus physics college students after MBL and lectures. 

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