Billie Piper is nominated for her role in clinical drugs trial drama The Effect, while the best actress category is completed by Hattie Morahan for A Doll's House and Kristin Scott Thomas for Old Times.
But Aventis' deal with Genta is much more conservative--and both companies are making their top priority clinical trials for drugs that treat top killers like breast, colon, lung and prostate cancer.
Of the 39 drugs on which information was available, the panel found that in the case of 18 drugs, adequate clinical trials had not been conducted - many of the drugs had been tested on fewer patients and in fewer hospitals than what is legally mandated.
It focuses on the clinical trials of new drugs and treatments to beat the disease.
Doctors can collaborate on difficult cases and exchange views on drugs, clinical issues and devices.
But clinical trials to get drugs to people do take many years - you know, five, seven, 10 years.
The ministry says that the authorities have the power to approve drugs without clinical trials in the public interest.
Plus, successful clinical trials of new drugs routinely show a benefit on such metrics over a 1- or 2-year period.
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Dr. Shiffman has served as a consultant to some of the hepatitis C drug developers and has conducted clinical trials of the drugs.
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According to this Washington Post longread by Peter Whoriskey, the bald truth about industry-funded clinical trials for new drugs is not pretty.
Stockpiles of disease control equipment, anti-viral drugs and clinical equipment have been increased and China says it has the capacity to make anti-viral medicines.
Pfizer has been struggling to convince investors that it can withstand an unprecedented number of patent expirations despite a scant number of experimental drugs in clinical trials.
Panicking at the prospect that new digital technologies would make obsolete nearly everything Kodak did, they committed huge resources to diversification: drugs, clinical diagnostic machines and batteries.
Researchers are trying, and company-funded clinical trials of targeted drugs have at least looked at whether the target is expressed (turned on) in tumor tissues.
The first step to savings is checking out various Web sites that attempt to rate and compare drugs on clinical effectiveness, similarities to others and even price.
Yes, t here are many groups and labs at medical schools testing various drugs in clinical trials in the hopes of slowing down the progress of the illness.
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Unfortunately for weight loss drugs, clinical researchers tend to favor an analysis that includes those who stop therapy precisely because it is tougher and harder for drug companies to game.
While drugmakers seem to agree that new technology may eventually deliver a solution, for the moment they are faced with trying to recruit additional patients into clinical tests for their drugs.
At issue were assured emergency-room access, fuller information from doctors, easier access to clinical tests of new drugs, and, most controversial of all, the right to sue health insurers for sub-standard treatment.
Second, the only way to really know which drug or which dose is right for a given patient is to conduct a clinical trial that compares drugs or doses to each other or against a placebo.
In early-stage clinical trials, these drugs, as well as injectible antibodies developed by Abgenix (nyse: ABGX - news - people ) and ImClone (nyse: IMCL - news - people ), seemed to cause tumor growth to slow or shrink.
As CEO of Exelixis he spearheaded the development of eight cancer drugs currently in clinical trials.
Genentech, in contrast, has insisted on large, controlled clinical studies that prove its drugs work beyond a reasonable doubt.
If that is true in people, too, many more drugs now in clinical trials may prove to be ineffective.
They pay for the invention of new drugs and for clinical trials of medicines making their way to the market.
Olestra is the most tested food substance in history, having undergone more animal studies and human clinical trials than most prescription drugs.
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But he said it would take more research and clinical experience with the new drugs to determine their ultimate role and impact.
But most drugs that begin clinical trials never make it to market.
But it also included language in the amendment that pharmaceutical companies had to prove significant clinical efficacy enhancements of their drugs over already-patented compounds.
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