Is this just a case of an experimental medicine getting bogged down in hypothetical worries?
After a first treatment failed, Jake was helped by an experimental medicine called Sabril that carried the risk of destroying his peripheral vision.
Likewise, SAP founder Dietmar Hopp uses his vast wealth to fund an array of companies that pursue cutting-edge research in experimental medicine.
One motive: Sanofi's Acomplia, an experimental medicine for treating obesity and helping patients stop smoking, also seems to raise good cholesterol and fight heart disease.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, in Germany, performed a trial on mice with the disease and fed them a high cholesterol diet.
But now an experimental medicine has lowered Nottingham's bad cholesterol to below 100 milligrams, the lowest level ever for a patient with the severe form of hypercholesterolemia.
Pfizer also said this morning that the Food and Drug Administration refused to accept a new drug application for an experimental medicine the company got from its acquisition of FoldRx.
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The experimental medicine, developed by a small, Hayward, Calif.
Parkinson's pathway: A cellular network linking various regions of the brain may play an important role in the development and progression of Parkinson's disease, research published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine suggests.
But news of a delay for Takeda's lead experimental medicine, a drug aimed at lowering cholesterol even more than current blockbusters like Lipitor, Crestor and Vytorin, should worry anyone connected with the drug industry.
In a result eagerly awaited by Wall Street, drug developer Seattle Genetics announced that its experimental cancer medicine shrank tumors in 75% of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma that had relapsed despite rounds of chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants.
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Pfizer has shelved its most promising experimental drug because the medicine increased the risk of death in a giant clinical trial, a disaster for the world's largest drug company.
Pfizer 's most important experimental drug, a new heart medicine designed to clear plaque from the arteries, has also been it's most controversial.
In addition, the tradition and methodology of experimental science is far more developed, and more sophisticated, in medicine than it is in economics.
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