But that approval was based on studies suggesting it briefly delayed the worsening of the disease.
Most people are familiar with this research form based on studies reported almost daily.
The decision is based solely on studies on the impact of the merger on the market.
Between 2000 and 2009, there were 13 reports on studies of the effects of rhBMP-2.
Much of the new evidence is based on studies in mice and anecdotal evidence in brain cancer.
He and his co-researchers drew on studies that show that some people are more boredom-prone than others.
The case for raising HDL rests not on clinical trials but mostly on studies showing circumstantial connections.
This speculation is based on studies reported last week at the European Federation of Neurosciences Society in Sweden.
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And test predictions are based on studies of small, mainly white, American populations.
It goes without saying that a Texas museum will lean heavily on studies of energy, especially oil and gas.
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The data and the relationships we are talking about are based on studies in the field, and other direct observations.
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The report - Food for Thought - is based on studies of thousands of children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.
In the 1970s, Dr Hansen focused on studies and computer simulations of the Earth's climate for the purpose of understanding the impact of humans.
And MRSA, (a staph bacteria resistant to common antibiotics) can be present and survive on surfaces for up to 8-9 days based on studies.
Based on studies of this nature, other researchers are trying to make the first, tentative steps towards predicting the impact of climate change on the whole.
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The findings are based on studies that took place during the 1996 Olympics, when Atlanta was equipped with the latest technology to do spot forecasting for the Games.
This according to the latest ads from the California Milk Processor Board, which rely on studies that show diets high in calcium can reduce symptoms of PMS in women.
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Many investors expect that these drugs might be approved, at least in some patients, based only on studies of their cholesterol-lowering potency, not hard proof they prevent heart attacks and strokes.
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But until now the FDA has focused the bulk of its attention on studies that lead to a new drug's approval and to new marketing claims, not to systematic efforts to pick up new side effects.
The "eliteness" of a college is principally defined by the SAT scores of those admitted. (Georgetown's recent average: about 1350.) The Dale-Krueger paper reports on studies indicating that even modest differences in SAT are associated with measurably higher lifetime incomes.
He was characterized by a brash style, and chose to file with the Food and Drug Administration for approval of Provenge on studies that had failed their main goal of preventing tumors from growing, but seemed to make patients live longer.
Dr. Janakiraman is lead author of a paper to be published this month based on studies of 400 adults between 2006 and 2009 by professors from the University of Arizona and the Wharton School, on how impatient shoppers get in lines.
The company is betting on studies showing that patients with certain strains of the hepatitis C virus can do with half as much time on Pegasys as they can on Schering-Plough 's (nyse: SGP - news - people ) Peg-Intron.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Levitra, an orange pill compared to Viagra's blue, based on studies showing that men were on average five times more likely to achieve an erection suitable for intercourse when taking the pill compared with those given a dummy medicine.
By that stage, he warns, runaway global warming would have become an unstoppable "deadly game of dominoes", ultimately leading to further rises that, based on studies of previous cases of similar climate change in the earth's paleontological history, would spell the near-certain extinction of almost all life on the planet.
It was then assumed, based on studies of pilot schemes in Britain and abroad, that half of the participants would have been hired anyway without the subsidy, and that, in a further 20% of cases, firms would sack an existing worker in order to hire a subsidised person from the scheme.
And based on other studies on the intensity of smart-phone use, we can guess that Smartphoniacs skew male, affluent and well-educated.
It's no coincidence in the decade of our life when we are most biologically capable of reproducing, men and women are also working full steam on their studies or on building their careers.
Based on these studies alone, AstraZeneca asked the FDA for accelerated approval of Iressa on Dec. 28, 2001.
The relationship between impact speed and pedestrian risk of death has been studied previously, but earlier studies based on data from the United States are now several decades old, and more recent studies based on analysis of data from other countries have been limited to cars.
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