The advisory panel decided that clinical studies presented by Transkaryotic did not provide strong evidence that the drug worked.
Both studies helped inform an Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel that, in September 2009, issued a report recommending the use of fitted N95 respirators by health-care workers who interact with patients with confirmed or suspected cases of H1N1. (MacIntyre was also a member of that panel.) However, because the two studies were preliminary, the committee said that it could not draw conclusions from either.
Still, the panel recommended that Glaxo do more studies that would monitor miscarriages and other problems reported by patients.
It is widely believed the IPCC looks only at peer-reviewed studies, but the panel's guidelines do allow information from elsewhere, as long as it is critically assessed and has proper references.
The head of the panel said all the large environmental population based studies done in the VSD were en effect useless, but as bad as they were they were an improvement the other two the Denmark studies.
The panel added, however, that long-term studies should be done to confirm its safety.
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The following chart compares U.S. solar costs to German costs (studies were updated to reflect current solar panel prices).
The Symposium, co-hosted by the Council on Environmental Quality and the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO), is two days of nearly 60 informative sessions, including panel discussions with leading experts, best practice case studies, and 101-education sessions.
The key to whether the outraged Arena investors have a case is whether the FDA buys the argument that were it not for the scary way cancer studies in rats were presented to the panel, the advisers would have voted to approve lorcaserin.
That panel was charged with helping to decide what kinds of studies needed to be done to study the drugs.
This article was also prepared for a panel discussion on pirates to be hosted by the International Studies Club at Rhodes College on Tuesday, March 8.
The studies -- one conducted by a senior panel of military officers and civilian experts and another by the Army's Inspector General -- are complete, Meyer said.
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In 2004, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel gave Intrinsa the thumbs down and called for larger, longer studies to ensure that the medication was safe, in addition to proving that it actually helped women's sex lives.
In the panel meeting two days ago, members discussed whether Vivus should conduct further studies before or after approval.
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The expert panel found no clear direct link between the vaccines and the deaths but said further studies were needed, Kyodo news agency said.
Several recent studies have come to an identical conclusion, including the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, a body set up by Mr Annan himself.
Furberg has co-authored epidemiologic studies that showed problems for Bextra, and he was the harshest Pfizer critic on the panel--at one point saying inconsistencies in the company's data submissions smacked of dishonesty.
If apo E is truly a marker for longevity, as the studies hint, then "five or 10 years from now, we may have a panel of genes with which you can make a prediction of life expectancy, " Dr. Breslow speculates.
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Important insights to emerge from the panel included the plasticity of the brain in recovering from traumatic injury over time, as well as preliminary studies suggesting that certain genetic mutations may influence susceptibility and recovery after traumatic brain injury as well as early-onset dementia.
The studies are likely to be a big focus of debate at a three-day FDA advisory panel meeting scheduled to begin early on the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 16, to decide the fate of Celebrex, Bextra and other Cox-2 drugs under development, such as Merck's Arcoxia.
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