It will be presenting a combination study of two of its antiviral drugs at the AASLD, and if it comes out positive it will start a follow-up trial.
Obesity drug developer Vivus posted results from a 2-year study of its combination weight loss pill Qnexa this morning, showing maintenance of an 11.4% and 10.4% weight loss for patients taking two doses of the medicine, compared to 2.5% for patients on placebo.
Porges points out that there is an FDA-mandated safety study of Copaxone in combination with Tysabri.
Additionally, a combination clinical study of TG-1101 with Revlimid will be started in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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But he also has existing heart disease and a low level of so-called "good" cholesterol, a combination the study says doubles his chances of a stroke.
That study had tested Avastin in combination with three chemotherapy drugs.
In a study of "every possible trip combination" over 11, 000 routes, CheapAir dissected more than 560 million fare-search records from 2012's 366 days.
The company didn't release full results of a 900-patient study testing Avastin against a placebo in combination with several chemotherapy regimens.
At the meeting Sunday, researchers from Europe are releasing new analysis of an old 1, 200-patient study testing Erbitux as initial treatment in combination with chemotherapy.
In the first stage of a phase III study called CLL11, the drug in combination with chemotherapy significantly reduced the risk of disease worsening or death compared to chemotherapy alone in previously untreated patients.
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The main contribution of this study is to substantiate that claim with a combination of well-tested economic and neuroscientific approaches, rather than air-filled conjecture.
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The study tests whether Vytorin, which is a combination of Schering-Plough's (nyse: SGP - news - people ) Zetia and Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Zocor, prevents heart attacks, strokes and deaths better than Zocor alone.
They are also conducting a study comparing their medicine combined with chemotherapy versus a combination of Avastin, panitumumab and chemo.
Thus, a lot is riding on the IMPROVE-IT study as it is meant to show that the combination of a statin plus a cholesterol absorption inhibitor is better than a statin alone.
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This study is unique in that it looks at a combination of different lifestyle and personality traits, said Dr. Yaakov Stern, professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University Medical Center, who was not involved with the study.
Study upon study has shown that the most groundbreaking ideas are a combination of multiple ideas and perspectives.
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In fact, in 2008 a study using ultrasound images of arteries failed to show that the combination of Zetia and simvastatin prevented artery hardening any better than simvastatin alone.
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Pfizer manufactured the combination drug Prempro, one of the drugs in the 2002 study.
The kind of certainty he expresses can only be explained by the combination of a strong belief and the conviction that the odd study that shows a hint of something going on must be right and the vast majority of studies that show no consistent effects must be flawed and biased.
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Statistical significance is a combination of two factors: how many patients were included in the study and how much the drug helped them.
The study also said the "likely cause" of the quakes was an "unusual combination of geology at the well site" and said conditions which caused the minor earthquakes were "unlikely to occur again".
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Other components of soy foods, such as folate, protein, calcium, or fiber (or some combination thereof) may also be responsible for the health benefits reported in the study, she says.
In the artery study, doctors gave 720 patients with a genetic disease that causes high cholesterol either the Vytorin combination pill or just the Zocor component.
In one study, researchers made three types of cakes: margarine only, extra-virgin olive oil only, and a combination of olive oil and margarine.
Many eye-vitamin formulations currently on the market are based on research conducted by the National Institutes of Health in a project called Age-Related Eye Disease Study, or AREDS. The first phase of the clinical trial, completed in 2001, found that a specific combination of vitamins C and E, along with beta-carotene and zinc, reduced the risk of age-related macular degeneration by as much as 25%.
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