But when Lana Kuykendall failed to feel better by Thursday, she checked out of the Atlanta hospital and traveled back to Greenville.
In SEAS, Vytorin failed to do better than placebo at treating a heart valve disease called aortic stenosis, but it did reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and operations to unclog arteries.
In ENHANCE, Vytorin, a combo pill of Schering-Plough's Zetia and Merck's now-generic Zocor, failed to do better than Zocor alone in preventing atherosclerosis, leading to the sales decline and big drops in the stock prices of both companies.
Since revealing that Vytorin failed to reduce atherosclerosis better than the cheap generic Zocor, shares of both companies have fallen.
The third film failed to capture a better opening than 2004 sequel Meet The Fockers, but performed more favourably that the comedy's original outing Meet The Parents.
But he failed to find a better alternative, so when last May he was forced to proceed with the move more or less as planned, it cost him his job.
Their explanation for the conflict puts the blame on Mr Afwerki: since he has failed to make life better for most of his people, he needs a war to distract and unify them.
In so doing, it will advance the cause of peaceful coexistence over the long-term far better than the failed two-state solution.
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Its efforts to motivate GPs by giving them new contracts in 2004 failed to secure a conspicuously better deal for their patients.
Bigger banks offering to take over the better assets of failed banks could then be given new money to boost their capital ratios.
When other joint projects failed, this toehold on a better future for the two Koreas remained.
Is the impact of disconnecting those networks in a controlled manner any worse or better than if they failed without your management?
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Several studies have compared the taste of organic food to that of conventional food, but have failed to establish that either is better.
When it finally came out, it failed to show that Vytorin was better than a cheap generic at preventing artery thickening in certain patients with high cholesterol.
Merck announced that the much anticipated results of the HPS2-THRIVE trial, which was designed to determine if their combination of niacin and laropripant was better than placebo, failed to reduce risk and increased the risk of some non-fatal serious adverse effects.
In 2008, an artery-imaging study failed to show that Vytorin prevented atherosclerosis better than Zocor alone.
But I've tried and I believe it's better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all.
But, he says, the only people who feel threatened by the Five Star Movement are politicians who have failed, not citizens who are demanding better government.
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The game was more open up after the interval and Samba might have done better when John Arne Riise failed to clear, but the Blackburn defender delayed his shot.
It was the visitors who made the better start, but they failed to make it count and Quins turned the match on its head with two tries in three minutes.
Finally, candidates can be held to better account for the successful or failed policies they supported or rejected.
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Despite the EUR opening with a better bid, the unit has failed to take out key resistance levels on top.
This year we also note nonprofits that failed one or more standards set by the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance or didn't supply requested information.
In December 2009, after Bernie Madoff confessed but before MF Global failed, the SEC adopted rules meant to better protect clients of investment advisers from theft and abuse.
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Pensions minister Mike O'Brien said the cost of an increase from 80% to 90% could be met by better use of assets still in failed schemes, matched by a further government contribution.
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President Bush's leadership has failed the country and Congress has not done much better.
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Infineon's result was better than expected, but the figures failed to impress investors.
These failed funds normally get merged into other funds with better records making their performance magically disappear from the results.
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But with Ryan Nelsen and Samba getting the better of the Dutchman, who has failed to score a league goal in open play this season, Liverpool struggled once the ball reached the Blackburn area.
Eloxatin was rejected by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in March 2000, because data submitted at the time failed to statistically prove that the new drug was better than the current first-line treatment, Pharmacia 's (nyse: PHA - news - people ) Camptosar.
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