's website, a clinical study found its RevitaLash Advanced product "improved appearance" of eyelashes.
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The FDA reviewed data that included a clinical study of 30 study participants with RP who received the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System.
When researchers run a clinical study, they define a specific goal.
Merck is suffering through the hardest period of its history, after pulling arthritis drug Vioxx off pharmacy shelves because it doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke in a clinical study.
The company recently completed enrollment in a Phase I clinical study of MultiStem in heart attack patients, and is midway through a clinical study of MultiStem in leukemia and other cancer patients.
Additionally, a combination clinical study of TG-1101 with Revlimid will be started in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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Early results from a midstage clinical study released in October 2002 were promising.
Developed by tiny biotech firm Galena Biopharma (GALE), Neu Vax is now in the initial phases of a third clinical study that.
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Early results from a midstage clinical study released in October were promising.
Millennium had faced some skepticism when it said it would file for FDA approval a year ahead of its original schedule, before a larger clinical study could be completed.
Results from a PFO clinical study funded by St.
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The key point is that there are strict rules about gaining the consent of patients and carers before they take part in a clinical research study - and these rules are taken very seriously indeed.
One solution is to ignore the scientific reasons underpinning the difference, and to do a big clinical study--probably involving tens of thousands of patients with arthritis--to compare the risk of heart attack for the various drugs.
The FDA based its approval of the NovoTTF 100A System on results from a single international clinical study in 237 patients with recurrent GBM or with GBM that hadn't responded to traditional therapy.
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And even if a natural-history study leads to a clinical trial for a treatment, there is no guarantee the same children will be allowed to participate.
If a therapy eventually is developed, and a clinical trial begins, a natural-history study can be used to help evaluate whether it is working to slow or stop the disease.
Men and women infected with HIV reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by taking oral antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems were relatively healthy, according to findings from a large-scale clinical study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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"I would call this a Bill Buckner type of study, " says Robert Califf, vice chairman for clinical research at Duke University who is leading a big study of Zetia and takes the drug himself.
For one, the groups noted the analysis is a retrospective study, not a prospective, randomized controlled clinical trial, which many regard as a gold standard for ferreting out safety concerns.
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But Merck is doing that big Vytorin versus Zocor study, a giant clinical trial called IMPROVE-IT.
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Incredibly, whenever a study site reported a clinical event, GSK and its contract research organization (CRO), knew immediately which drug the patient was receiving.
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Goldstein moved from Boston to San Diego in 2007 to establish San Diego Sexual Medicine, a 6, 000-square-foot facility with a sex therapist, physical therapist and a full clinical research facility where scientists study sexual dysfunction.
The study was conducted in a clinical room used for research at the University of Utah School of Medicine's Department of Anesthesiology.
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Peto points out that hundreds of drugs are being studied in thousands of clinical trials, and sometimes a study will show a drug causes cancer or extends survival just by chance.
In December of 2001, Merck seemed to indicate it would mount such a study--but the clinical trial never seems to have materialized, even though the firm started a similar trial for Arcoxia, a successor drug to Vioxx.
Maybe this was hyperbole, but a study published today in the journal Clinical Science does help paint a picture of what this Brave New World of personalised medicine may actually look like.
Fear of these losing outcomes often leads to a number of suboptimal choices, including over-capitalizing a company (trying to protect against the downside), cutting the burn so much as to cut corners and impair a program (doing an under-powered clinical study), or doing less-than-optimal business development deals.
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence, a government body set up to study the efficacy of drugs and treatments, is currently looking at Taxol.
In a 1999 study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, washing dogs with allergen-reducing shampoo for five minutes cut the dogs' allergen levels by about 85 percent.
In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, green tea extract increased energy expenditure, which is a measure of metabolism, plus it had a significant effect on fat oxidation, or how much fat your body burns.
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