The Institute of Medicine has just released a visionary report on how we should study the safety of approved drugs.
In the paper on that study, published in the journal Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, the authors claim they didn't have enough patients on Actos in their database to make a comparison.
The 24-week safety study reported to the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Los Angeles looked at 1, 000 patients.
This was the recommendation of the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) based on its 5th unblinded review of all study safety data.
One, Marvin Konstam of Tufts University, said he was on the data safety monitoring board for a study of Natrecor.
As most experts on both sides of the safety debate expected, the study, COURAGE, showed no reduction in heart attacks and deaths for patients who got a stent compared to those who didn't.
He quotes a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety which suggests there is on average a 40% decrease in all accidents and a 90% drop in fatal ones when a traffic intersection is replaced by a roundabout.
Since Barbaro's injury, the Keeneland Association has hosted two summits on the "Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse" to study the reasons modern horses aren't racing as often as they used to.
Walsh says this was the first efficacy data for Raptiva, and so long as the problem in the rheumatoid-arthritis study was effectiveness, not safety, it shouldn't worry investors focused on Raptiva's near-term approval to treat psoriasis.
Given the failure of Study 377 to demonstrate efficacy, it was rightly concluded that a submission for new wording on safety should not be made.
Following Mr Knight's death, and another at the junction on the same day, the Highways Agency commissioned a study looking at a solution to safety issues.
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The recent hullabaloo over the controversial Seralini GM maize study and questions about the safety of foods made from genetically modified crops has obscured another line of attack on biotechnology: claims that GM crops are environmentally unfriendly.
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