Aside from the aforementioned stomach safety study, called VIGOR, Merck also did a smaller study, called 090, which compared Vioxx to a placebo over six weeks.
At the same conference Sugen was to present a smaller study indicating that SU5416 with chemo halted the growth of tumors in patients with advanced colon cancer for an average of at least nine months.
It also confirms an earlier, smaller study, published as a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine last July, which tracked 2, 566 patients with opioid dependence before and after the introduction of the new OxyContin.
But the study is smaller and simpler, and might finish faster.
He notes that there were similar results from an earlier, much smaller 33-patient study, conducted by noted dermatologist Alice Gottlieb of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in New Jersey.
"As humans we can identify galaxies light years away, we can study particles smaller than the atom, but we still haven't unlocked the mystery of the 3lb of matter that sits between our ears, " he said.
Others said the study relied mostly on smaller countries that are dependent upon foreign lenders for their finances.
"I'm just a little perplexed at how you could do a study that is much smaller and much shorter, " Ballantyne says.
Previous research projects which have found declines in the number of new medicines focused on smaller periods of time, the study said.
At the same time, there were hints that Simdax did have a positive effect, albeit a considerably smaller one than doctors designing the study had posited.
"It is much more useful and informative to do one comprehensive natural-history study rather than numerous smaller efforts, and we encourage people to either pool their efforts or, even better, collaborate on one larger project, " says Sandy Walsh, an FDA spokeswoman.
Many of them aren't healthy to begin with, and many others have smaller brains than the adults in this study.
Yet according to a 2006 study British homes are on average smaller than those in Germany, France or the Netherlands, for example, and the difference has been widening.
Interestingly, most of those sued were smaller companies based on the results of the Santa Clara study.
Greece cut its much smaller programme by 40%, according to the Data study, which was published in association with the campaign group ONE.
The increase, based on an actuarial study, will be announced in August and should be smaller than recent increases, he said.
Variability increases as components shrink, said Professor Asenov, who has been using large scale simulations on grid computers to study how the behaviour of transistors changes as they get smaller.
He proposed starting with a smaller preapproval trial to rule out risk and then doing a second, larger study, after approval.
This time around, as a recent Brookings study reveals, larger businesses came out of the recovery stronger, not their beleaguered smaller counterparts.
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In this study, which relies on data from the Census Bureau, the authors confirm that smaller companies created more jobs than larger companies during 1992-2005.
Striegel-Moore says women of color in her study did suffer from bulimia and bingeing, two other eating disorders, though in smaller numbers than white women did.
This study looked at people who had never had a clinical stroke, but may have had smaller strokes that went unnoticed.
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While the study suggests that most American Muslims do not attend either these sorts of institutions or the substantially smaller percentage that promote a peaceful, tolerant and law-abiding form of Islam, the preponderance of mosque-going Muslims in this country are being regularly exposed to a potentially violent jihadist strain of the faith.
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To that end he is changing the structure of the research labs, from monoliths to smaller units that are either entrepreneurial (racing to develop a drug) or exploratory (looking for new biology to study).
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