It focuses on the clinical trials of new drugs and treatments to beat the disease.
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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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 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.
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.
They pay for the invention of new drugs and for clinical trials of medicines making their way to the market.
The Oxford University researchers who conducted the trial recently published an analysis of the results of completed clinical trials of cholesterol-lowering drugs in The Lancet.
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.
This tool may be useful as an outcome measure in MS clinical trials to assess the efficacy of neuroprotective drugs.
Then he argued that industry was being too slow to embrace less expensive ways of doing big clinical trials, and said that yes, most drugs taken for a long period of time, not just for diabetes, need to be tested in bigger studies.
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.
This fraction is likely to decrease further as FDA demands ever-larger, ever-more expensive clinical trials to accumulate data on the safety of drugs in development.
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He expects that Tularik will double the number of drugs it has in clinical trials from three to six over the next 12 months.
It instantly grabbed market share, and then Pfizer followed up by running a series of giant clinical trials, some of the biggest ever, in order to get more patients on cholesterol drugs and prove that Lipitor was the best option.
As CEO of Exelixis he spearheaded the development of eight cancer drugs currently in clinical trials.
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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While a few firms have come unstuck over drugs faltering in clinical trials, a solid core of big, successful firms such as Celltech and Shire is reassuring investors that Britain's biotechnology sector is a better long-term bet than, say, Germany's less mature, and less profitable, industry.
But now, most of the drugs from smaller biotechs that are in Phase II clinical trials have already been licensed or partnered with bigger drug developers.
The paper, which Nissen and Topol wrote with Kathy Wolski, a Cleveland Clinic statistician, combines results from five clinical trials of Pargluva in which the drug was compared to either placebo or other diabetes drugs.
At the far end of the dumbbell, Gilead has two drugs in early-stage clinical trials.
There are several potential concerns about DPP-4 drugs, clear evidence of them has not turned up in clinical trials so far.
Earlier this week Pfizer release d a neat-o interactive version of its pipeline of experimental drugs, including updates on which have moved into new clinical trials.
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Kroll has some questions about whether Quintiles invests in the same drugs for which it runs clinical trials and whether that represents a conflict of interest.
At HGS seven gene-based drugs have entered trials, but most remain in the earlier stages of clinical testing.
Dr Lorna Layward, head of research at the society, said clinical trials had shown that some patients responded to current drugs in use such as beta interferon and copaxone, while others did not.
In 2003 it even formed a partnership with Ranbaxy Laboratories, one of India's leading drug firms, to identify new drugs and conduct early-stage clinical trials.
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Grundy, a the University of Texas Southwestern cardiologist who co-wrote the U.S. cholesterol guidelines, has argued that increasingly, clinical trials must use endpoints that lump together various kinds of heart problems if they have a hope of proving the benefits of drugs.
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