This is welcome, as it the fact that senior charge nurses on the wards are being freed up to oversee their teams and provide effective clinical leadership.
The drug was shown to be safe and effective in clinical trials involving 25, 000 patients and has been administered to thousands more worldwide since then.
Usually considered to be the most primitive and essential form of communication, touch is so powerful and effective that clinical studies at Mayo Clinic show that premature babies who are stroked grow 40 percent faster than those who do not receive the same amount of touching.
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They assume doctors have made all the right clinical decisions for safe and effective care.
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One study reported that the vaccine candidate was 53% effective in preventing episodes of clinical malaria in children five to 17 months old.
Which of the many acupuncture traditions or approaches is most effective or appropriate for a given clinical indication?
And when their medicines are put under the spotlight of rigorous clinical trials, some are found to be effective.
Dr Sindi also founded Sonoptix Technology, Cambridge, with Saudi Arabian seed funding, and led the development of a cost effective measurement technology for application in clinical diagnostics.
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Late last week, Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) disclosed in a regulatory filing that MLN-02, a treatment for Crohn's disease, was effective in a mid-stage clinical trial.
Last summer, Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) presented data at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology indicating that the drug may be effective in kidney cancer.
Brent Wisner of the Los Angeles firm Baum Hedlund Aristei Goldman, argues the Food and Drug Administration shouldn't have approved Zoloft because Pfizer didn't publish some clinical studies that found the drug about as effective as a placebo.
However, the new clinical data may drive hospitals and patients towards cost effective laproscopic hysterectomy.
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"If validated in further clinical trials, this would represent a substantially more effective therapy than current treatments for Alzheimer's disease, " he said.
For cost control to be effective, the professional autonomy and independent clinical judgment of the physician and other providers must in some measure be sacrificed to standardization.
The Nasdaq Biotech Index is up 42% year to date, fueled in large part by successful clinical trials of several experimental drugs that were proven effective in stopping the spread of cancer.
Despite a number of randomized clinical trials suggesting that EMDR is at least as effective as other commonly accepted therapies for traumatic disorders (i.e. such as post-traumatic stress disorder), it still viewed as a bit of a fringe procedure by many in the mental health field.
Multiple clinical trials have shown that cardiac stents are no more effective than drugs or lifestyle changes in preventing heart attacks or death.
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The Penn Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center has now started enrolling patients in a clinical trial to see if the drugs will be an effective treatment for ulcerative colitis.
In contrast, the American Psychiatric Association highlights the fact that a phase 3 study of the vaccine reported in 2011 yielded disappointing clinical results, demonstrating that the vaccine was no more effective than placebo.
These results thus shed light on why, in a series of clinical trials conducted last autumn, leptin treatment did not prove uniformly effective (let alone miraculous).
Even if the drug works perfectly in the patients, it will take years of clinical trials to prove that the new drug is both safe and effective.
Sepracor said that Lunesta had been proven safe and effective over a six-month period in two different clinical studies, without evidence of patients becoming tolerant of the drug.
By combining clinical, social and research data, researchers aim to identify more effective treatments, improve drug safety, assess risks to public health and study the causes of diseases and disability.
But it will be at least a couple of years before enough safety data is collected in order to deem Tysabri effective enough to validate the risks of PML. Recent clinical studies of more than 3, 000 patients indicate the risk of contracting PML is roughly 1 in 1000, given the three confirmed cases.
This research may increase the clinical use of manuka honey as doctors are faced with the threat of diminishingly effective antimicrobial options.
Dr Marcus Flather, consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and director of its clinical trials and evaluation unit said hospitals needed to boost the use of these effective treatments.
The North Staffordshire clinical commissioning group said it had chosen the firm because it would provide a "cost effective and efficient" service.
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.
The typical clinical trial model may not be best suited for generating evidence that a drug is safe and effective against diseases where patient enrollment can be difficult and diseases progress slowly and unevenly over a long period of time, according to Steven Grossman, who worked on the original Orphan Drug Act in 1983 and is now a policy and regulatory consultant.
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