The new treatments also are expected to be shorter in duration than the current standard.
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For their part, the unions want longer contracts than the current standard ten months.
The current standard for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress, for instance, is justifiably high.
Rather than testing Xarelto against warfarin, the current standard in oral anti-coagulants, Xarelto was studied against placebo.
National League Two side Celtic Crusaders are the current standard bearers for rugby league in the Principality.
To retire at her current standard of living, she figures, she needs nearly twice the savings she has now.
Early positive results from T-DM1 demonstrated efficacy comparable to the current standard of care while exhibiting a better safety profile.
The current standard method for producing proteins is mammalian cell culture, which does not allow for control of the sugar structures.
FireWire transfers data at roughly 30 times Universal Serial Bus (USB), the current standard for interdevice connections for PCs and older Macs.
More commonly, new approaches have advantages and disadvantages compared with the current standard of care and provide more options to patients and their physicians.
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The drug, palifosfamide, did not significantly reduce the time it took for tumors to grow or get worse compared to the current standard treatment.
These particles boost storage densities to as high as 150 gigabits per square inch from the current standard of 35 gigabits per square inch.
There was one exception: only 21 percent say it is unlikely they will discontinue product candidates that do not exceed the current standard of care.
"The current standard, when applied correctly, is absolutely adequate, " Rau says.
In clinical trials, it cured more than 60% of previously untreated patients when added to the current standard treatments, compared to 40% who got the standard treatments alone.
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But with fuel prices rising, there's a concern that, like the Air Discount Scheme, the discounted fares will catch up with the current standard fares all too quickly.
Already, there is an expectation that Merck will be able to gain pricing and marketing advantages because it sells the current standard of care drugs, ribavirin and pegylated interferon.
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The results were shown in the first randomized phase II study comparing trastuzumab-DM1 (T-DM1) to Herceptin (trastuzumab) plus chemotherapy (docetaxel), the current standard of care for first line HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.
However, scientists are already discussing the other facilities that will be needed to complete the search for the new physics that must exist beyond the current Standard Model of particles and their interactions.
Dai and the Sutardjas next went after networking products, designing a chip that would transmit data through Ethernet ports at a billion bits per second, ten times the speed of the then current standard.
That regulation nearly doubles the mileage requirement for manufacturers, making them boost their corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) from the current standard of 29.7 mpg for cars and light trucks to 54.5 mpg.
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Under the new Basel III standards, banks will have to increase their tier-1 capital ratio, which measures the capital they hold back from lending or investing, to 4.5% by 2013, from the current standard of 4%.
Clearly, the Votkinsk experience has shown the shortfalls of the current standard, and of the practice of working out "technical details" regarding such inspections after the treaties are signed (as was done with the Votkinsk inspection arrangements).
However, experts say that the oil industry would naturally be at odds with the proposal for an increased renewable fuel standard, particularly since it only reluctantly accepted the current standard of 7.5 billion gallons of renewables by 2012.
The player will support several digital video formats, including MPEG 2, which is the current standard for digital video used on DVD discs and in hard-drive TV recorders like ReplayTV and TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ).
It offers 56 megabits per second over a 30-mile radius. (The current standard is 11 megabits per second over a half-mile.) Wi-Max antennas on roofs and water towers will spring up like crazy and may begin to threaten the cable and local telephone empires.
The current standard treatment cures between 66% and 79% of patients with the most common type of hepatitis C, known as genotype 1, and who are undergoing the drug therapy for the first time, according to clinical data cited by the Food and Drug Administration.
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The action by the FCC was prompted by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, which last summer urged the agency to undertake the reevaluation in view of the fact that the current standard was adopted by the FCC in 1996 based on the recommendations of various organizations including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.
The current gold standard of treatment is Schering-Plough's Rebetron, on the market for three years.
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