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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Results from a PFO clinical study funded by St.
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While the FDA approved the vaccine for the above age group last December, the CDC is waiting for the efficacy results of an ongoing clinical study (Pfizer expects to complete the trials by 2013) before deciding on broader recommendations.
Merck also plans to seek FDA approval for its investigational cardiovascular drugs Tredaptive and Vorapaxar by early next year (Read Merck Updates: Outcome of Large Clinical Study On Tredaptive Soon).
The study was financed by the College of American Pathologists and the American Clinical Laboratory Association.
"Indeed, one of the 'early' strains identified in the study is currently being re-evaluated in clinical trials funded by the EU, " they said.
The study, led by first author Peter Ducharme, MSW, a clinical social worker at Boston Children's, compared two groups of 9- to 17-year-old children admitted to the hospital's Psychiatry Inpatient Service who had high levels of anger.
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Medical devices in Europe are approved with extremely little clinical study, but they are far more likely to face hurdles getting paid for by government health plans.
Makers of drug-coated stents could be hurt further by results from a clinical trial being released at the end of the month--even though the study will test few, if any, of these drug-releasing devices.
Doctors might switch patients from Zyprexa to competing drugs if they follow the recommendations, which came from a one-day panel co-sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity.
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 a study co-authored by Rolls and published in a 2011 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, people who ate an entree made up of 25% pureed vegetables -- in this case, squash and cauliflower were blended into macaroni and cheese -- consumed 360 fewer calories per "volumize" the dish, tricking your brain into thinking you're eating more when in fact you're eating less.
The ENHANCE study was run by Schering-Plough under an arrangement in which Merck and Schering divvied up key clinical trials.
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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