Standardizing the process by which companies strike deals to do clinical trials that compare an experimental drug to a standardregimen made by another company.
The trial involved 1, 608 patients followed for five years, and compared UFT to a standard chemotherapy regimen that must be infused slowly into patients' veins.
The standard vaccine regimen has been five shots over a 28-day period, but recent research has shown that the vaccine works in just four (or even three) shots.
She started the infant on a three-drug cocktail of antiretroviral medications for HIV treatment, as opposed to the standard two-drug regimen for prophylaxis (prevention) of infection.