Results from the clinicalstudy show that most participants were able to perform basic activities better with the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System than without it.
The FDA based its approval of the NovoTTF 100A System on results from a single international clinicalstudy in 237 patients with recurrent GBM or with GBM that hadn't responded to traditional therapy.
Men and women infected with HIV reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by taking oral antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems were relatively healthy, according to findings from a large-scale clinicalstudy sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
From January 2014 the European Medicines Agency will publish all clinicalstudy reports - the data behind medical trials, which often run into hundreds of pages.
Dr Heneghan has also spent 'four to five months' negotiating access to data from GSK, makers of Relenza but has yet to receive the clinicalstudy reports.
While Vivus registered four Stage III clinical trials with the government registry, no study results from any of those trials have been published, though presumably preliminary data were submitted to the FDA panel.
Makers of drug-coated stents could be hurt further by results from a clinical trial being released at the end of the month--even though the study will test few, if any, of these drug-releasing devices.