Historically, most drugs in this patient population only shrink tumors in only 30% of patients.
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Who decides whether a treatment or evidence is valid for my patient population, etc?
This is a rare disease patient population, with a life-threatening condition, in need of new therapies.
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The hospital patient population is very different to what it was just 20 years ago.
Green and Hollister hope to begin clinical trials in a larger patient population this year or next.
But in some ways the changes ignored the elephant in the room: the changing nature of the patient population.
In that tough patient population, CVT says the drug significantly reduced chest pain.
Each area has its own history and traditions, its own gaps in infrastructure, and its own distinctive patient population.
The FDA approval for KYNAMRO is supported by the largest clinical trial conducted to-date in the HoFH patient population.
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On the other, there was concern regarding the lack of strong, well-executed randomized trial data of the target patient population.
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Though he was happy to have served a neglected patient population for two years in South Africa, Hevia slipped into U.S. exile in 1999.
May I respectfully point out that this tool is only intended for use by medical professionals and is not directly accessible by the patient population.
During the panel discussion Donna Arnett noted that the trial was performed in a patient population that had already achieved low LDL levels with statins.
As a public company, it got too much pressure to become profitable for it to further reduce an already small patient population with a diagnostic test.
In fact, the change in the patient population has been so acute that a King's Fund study has put the average age of a patient at over 80.
Another panelist, Christie Ballantyne, agreed with Arnett, and went further, arguing that the study did not shed light on the patient population that is most likely to take niacin.
Too many health sites and social media platforms are handled by healthy young people who lack sensitivity to the patient population or how to discuss a serious medical condition.
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But while cases like Kaiba's are a medical boon, both Terzic and the UM researchers stress that this and other regenerative procedures must be replicated in a wider patient population.
If patients were more aware of how such decisions affect their own budgets, drug companies would have to keep prices down in order to appeal to the broadest patient population.
Thanks to the unraveling of the human genome, we are on the brink of an era of narrowly targeted, genetically geared therapies tailored to just small slices of the patient population.
Moreover, the branded market is growing, he believes, because there were additional indications for Lucentis for treating diabetic macular edema, the patient population expanded due to age and more patients switched from Avastin.
"These revisions strengthen and add points of information for the practicing physician, and gives them the most accurate information that we have to help them appropriately prescribe Crestor to the appropriate patient population, " he said.
In Texas, another major concern is how overhauling health care will deal with the question of providing treatment to illegal immigrants --- a significant slice of the patient population at JPS and other public hospitals.
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Since it remains unknown what percentage of patients who receive Zytiga before Provenge will remain symptomatic after Zytiga therapy, there is risk that, if used before Provenge, Zytiga could shrink the eligible patient population for Provenge.
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Accordingly, the scientist or physician who owes duties of loyalty to either his academic peers or patient population cannot be allowed to subordinate their interests to either his financial well-being or that of the commercial enterprises with which he has some sort of business arrangement.
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Making some neurologists nervous is the fact that the study was performed in Russia, where Alzheimer's drugs aren't used as often as in the U.S. This or some other undiscovered patient population difference might tend to magnify the difference between drug and placebo, some neurologists say.
In this employed population, the No. 1 patient was a twenty-five-year-old woman.
To cure (or control) cancer requires the comprehensive detection and destruction (or control) of an enormously diverse, unpredictable, evolving population of cancer cells in a patient.
The initial academic detailing grants are intended to disseminate the findings of comparative effectiveness research (CER), which evaluates treatment outcomes derived from large-population as opposed to patient-specific data.
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Health chiefs said there was no risk to the general population or even family members of the patient.
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