Anderson Cancer Center, told Forbes that in order to be on schedule, the study should have already reached 2, 500 events.

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The firm said its Tasiast mine pre-feasibility study continues to be on schedule and is expected to be done by the first quarter of 2013.

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Patients were tried on the drug before the trial started, meaning those with obvious side effects were screened out, and Crestor was so effective the study was stopped ahead of schedule, limiting the safety data.

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Although full results are not known, Celgene announced in its second-quarter earnings release Thursday that the study had been stopped ahead of schedule because the difference between patients getting Revlimid and those on a control group was already apparent.

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Most doctors he saw simply wanted to schedule him for an MRI study and surgery.

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The phase 3 trial actually compared smoking cessation outcomes for vaccination and placebo for several months after the vaccination schedule, whereas the current study focused on the period just after immunization.

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Millennium had faced some skepticism when it said it would file for FDA approval a year ahead of its original schedule, before a larger clinical study could be completed.

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Andrew Smith of Cardiff University, who carried out the second study, said workers should try to avoid split-shifts and other schedule changes that put their body clocks out of kilter.

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Peter Kim, Merck's head of research and development, said on the company's conference call that the study for migraine prevention was "exploratory" and used a different dosing schedule than other telcagepant trials.

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