During a ten-minute experimental trial, female subjects worked 2.5 minutes compared to 2.1 minutes for male subjects without a privacy filter installed and 4.9 minutes versus 4.3 minutes for male subjects with a privacy filter installed.
Then Gendron joined a clinical trial of an experimental drug last year and was startled by the results.
In the world of cancer research, there is something called a Kaplan-Meier curve, which tracks the survival of patients in the trial of an experimental drug.
In late May Vertex Pharmaceuticals of Boston released results from a giant trial showing its experimental hepatitis C drug, telapravir, cured 75% of patients, far better than existing treatments.
But last April, he started on a clinical trial of a new experimental kidney cancer drug from Novartis called RAD001.
But last April, he started on a clinical trial of a new experimental kidney cancer drug from Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) called RAD001.
Then Wolchok put her in a trial testing ipilimumab with an experimental Medarex vaccine.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, in Germany, performed a trial on mice with the disease and fed them a high cholesterol diet.
Late Sunday, the company released data from a second-stage trial of 411 patients showing its experimental drug AMG-162 was at least as effective at boosting bone density as Fosamax and only has to be given as little as once every six months.
The trial combines Avastin with Genentech's experimental drug Tarceva, which is being developed with OSI Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: OSIP - news - people ).
Massive open online courses have the potential to alter how we teach and learn as a society, but unlike other methods that are steeped in centuries of trial and error, the MOOC concept remains experimental and unproven -- often criticized as better suited for edification than rigorous education.
Massive open online courses have the potential to alter how we teach and learn as a society, but unlike other methods that are steeped in centuries of trial and error, the MMOC concept remains experimental and unproven -- often criticized as better suited for edification than rigorous education.
The experimental vaccine protected only one of the six volunteers in the trial.
It is not always wrong to stop a trial when no benefit is accruing to those on the experimental treatment.
Pfizer has shelved its most promising experimental drug because the medicine increased the risk of death in a giant clinical trial, a disaster for the world's largest drug company.
In a bewildering result, an experimental drug aimed at reducing inflammation in the arteries failed in a big clinical trial but prevented heart attacks, strokes and deaths, according to a press release from the drug's maker.
An experimental Pfizer drug designed to raise HDL (good cholesterol) recently increased mortality in a large clinical trial.
Now an experimental drug from Iceland's DeCode Genetics shows promise of quelling heart inflammation in a preliminary human trial.
The trial compares Novartis' (nyse: NVS - news - people ) experimental cox-2 drug Prexige to two older drugs, ibuprofen and naproxen, in 18, 325 osteoarthritis sufferers.
In December Pfizer stopped testing its experimental good-cholesterol drug, torcetrapib, after it boosted the death rate in a 15, 000-patient trial--even though it raised good cholesterol by 60% in past studies.
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