But Merck is doing that big Vytorin versus Zocor study, a giant clinical trial called IMPROVE-IT.
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The results announced today come from a 161 patient clinical trial called STRIVE.
Goodman made the issue very real by noting that Japanese researchers have come up with a clinical diagnosis called Retired Husband Syndrome.
AstraZeneca's boast was based on the results of a clinical trial called STELLAR, which compared Crestor against other medicines in the class of cholesterol drugs called statins.
But Wyeth was unable to release any details because the study, part of a large set of clinical trials called the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), has not yet been published.
Just days after Merck recalled Vioxx from the market, editors at The Journal discovered a diskette containing earlier versions of a manuscript for a crucial Vioxx clinical trial called VIGOR that they had published in November 2000.
There, Schering-Plough and Merck seemed to have too much control over the delayed clinical trial, called ENHANCE.
The technique of pooling disparate clinical trials, called meta-analysis, has become the most powerful weapon of drug safety researchers.
They're also asking Merck and Schering-Plough some arcane questions about how the failed clinical trial, called ENHANCE, was constructed.
From 1 April the 31 Primary Care Trusts will be replaced by GP-led new bodies called Clinical Commissioning Groups.
Across England almost every GP practice has joined with neighbouring surgeries to form what are called Clinical Commissioning Groups, or CCGs.
Nissen began to worry about Avandia last September when he saw the results of a 5, 000-patient clinical trial, called DREAM, that showed Avandia prevented diabetes.
They're also asking Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) and Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ) some arcane questions about how the failed clinical trial, called ENHANCE, was constructed.
Some have called for all clinical trials to be registered with the public, at inception, to avoid any publication bias.
The international team will begin so-called phase two clinical trials in six months' time designed to determine whether the treatment is safe and effective.
In 1971 he founded a journal called Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science, which he was helping to edit up to a few weeks before his death.
Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, who called attention to clinical data that indicated a heart risk for Vioxx and Celebrex in 2001, is also on board, as is Curt Furberg of Wake Forest University.
Last year, Tanner was enrolled in a clinical trial testing the drug, called drisapersen.
That paper, by two top cardiologists, called for a big clinical trial to specifically prove Vioxx was safe for the heart.
Normally, major studies are presented as so-called late-breaking clinical trials.
The idea of treating disease by replacing a defective gene with a working copy gained credence in 1990 with the success of the world's first gene therapy clinical tests against a rare condition called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
Professor Kimler's team are using their method to select women for a clinical trial of a breast cancer drug called DFMO.
The establishment of consortia - or clinical commissioning groups as they are now being called - is already happening.
At my initial diagnosis I participated in a clinical trial evaluating Herceptin, a so-called personalized medicine (PM) drug targeting a mutation believed to be driving my cancer.
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On Sept. 15, Rory Collins, the head of the Clinical Trial Service Unit at Oxford, was called by Merck and told of the SEAS result, according to the letter.
Concerned, I called up Jessica Miles, an assistant clinical professor at the family law clinic at Seton Hall University School of Law, and an expert on domestic violence-related legal issues.
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In the United Kingdom there's a controversial agency called the National Institute for Health and Clinical Evidence that performs those kinds of studies and sets policy for the national health budget.
Some patients in the clinical trial suffered an increased heart rate and a condition called metabolic acidosis, which can lead to hyperventilation, fatigue and anorexia.
Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ), which is developing a Cox-2 drug called Prexige, has decided on even bigger clinical trials than Merck.
It has an exclusive option to repurchase its rights to the three drugs for a preset price, which it will likely do if the clinical trials succeed on its cholesterol-lowering drug, called 301012.
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