For one thing, the patients in the placebo arm of the study appeared to be sicker, older, and more refractory to prior chemotherapy than those in the elesclomol arm.
Significantly more patients in the niacin arm stopped their study treatment during the course of the trial (25.4% versus 16.6%).
With the small absolute event numbers and lack of a comparator arm in the study (only 7% of patient-days were on placebo), we view the move in the shares as an overreaction.
Dr. Goel, co-author of the March study, agrees that including a placebo arm "would have been better" but says his study was an essential preliminary to larger trials.
The study - by the investigative arm of Congress - is intended to help understand the pattern of financial loss in New York so as to try to focus economic reconstruction efforts.
The study was a multinational, single-arm, open-label, 78 week trial that was recently published in the November 2, 2012 online version of the Lancet.
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However, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an arm of the Justice Department, cautioned that the previous study was based on a survey of current inmates in both state and federal institutions.
Controllers had been trying to get an ice sample into TEGA for weeks but struggled with a scraper and rasp on the probe's robotic arm -- items designed to grind the ice for study -- Boynton said.
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Last fall, the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health arm of the independent National Academy of Sciences, to study certain questions related to HIV testing policy and access to care.
The study, sponsored by the Allstate Foundation, an arm of Allstate Insurance, interviewed 1, 025 teens age 14-18 years old, from February 5-15 this year.
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Her company conducted the study on behalf of Shop.org, the online arm of the National Retail Federation.
The wing and part of the fuselage of the plane were being moved to Oceana for further study, but the remains of the jet's twin engines will remain at the crash site for now as investigators study them, the U.S. Atlantic fleet's aviation arm reported.
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