This comes on top of less-than-positive results concerning a late-stage study of Erbitux, ImClone's multi-billion colorectal drug, combined with chemotherapy.
Merck also announced it had canceled a mid-stage study of its migraine drug telcagepant, viewed as promising, because of elevated levels of liver enzymes in study participants.
The minister then announced a two-stage study of the teacher training infrastructure, to consider the affordability of the current system and the options for a more shared and integrated system.
Immunex and American Home Products, which owns 55% of Immunex, recently began a final-stage study of 1, 800 patients to answer the key question: Does Enbrel prolong the lives of heart failure subjects?
In a mid-stage study, 13 of 15 patients who received Soliris did not require further treatment for aHUS. Based on some back-of-the-envelope math based on the incidence of aHUS in France and Italy, Sanford C.
Not only does the play work, but this production, directed by David Russell, is a case study in how to stage punch-line humor.
The financial impact of the loss of a spouse and the healthcare costs associated with aging took center stage in the study.
He said the next stage of the study was to look back at the each of those cases and check the advice given by both sides.
The effort underscores that a significant level of interest remains, at least among some researchers and executives, to study compounds in later-stage patients, despite the recent setbacks.
Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people ) shares have doubled since May when a late-stage 900-patient study showed that Avastin significantly extended the lives of colorectal cancer patients.
The Wildlife Trusts expressed concern that schemes where shortlisted at an early stage in the feasibility study, warning that it favoured proven technology - barrages - which would be highly damaging environmentally.
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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But the just-released study opens the starting gate for the next stage of the approval and development process.
Mark Matfield, of the Association for International Cancer Research, which funded the study, stressed the research was at an early stage.
This suggests that lower overall breast cancer survival in the UK is not because women are being diagnosed at a later stage than in other countries, the study says.
In a recent Japanese study that looked at nearly 500 Japanese women with stage I and II breast cancer, researchers found the women who drank more green tea before and after surgery had a lower chance of the cancer recurring.
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The Kaiser study looked at 1, 063 women in the early stage of pregnancy.
He said the study showed the effect on the baby depended on the stage of pregnancy the woman was at when she experienced the stressful event.
On October 13th a study published in Science Translational Medicine revealed that early-stage trials show a new tuberculosis vaccine may work against drug-resistant strains of that killer disease.
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The next stage of the ongoing research project will involve a study of 80 women who have been similarly mapped while dancing.
Chemistry is vital but compatibility is the core of a successful relationship, and when relationships have both it sets the stage for enduring partnerships that create some case-study results.
While Vivus registered four Stage III clinical trials with the government registry, no study results from any of those trials have been published, though presumably preliminary data were submitted to the FDA panel.
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Novelist and professor of creative writing at the university, Andrew Cowan, welcomed the introduction of creative writing at a younger stage, saying this would help students going on to study the subject at a higher level.
During a sleep study, wires attached to the head monitor brain waves that reveal which stage of sleep a person is in.
On Wednesday, a joint study by Babson and Baruch Colleges reported that the average rate of early-stage entrepreneurial activity in the U.S. rose to nearly 13% last year, up from 7% in 2008 and the highest level in more than a decade.
In a separate study they found that IMRT's higher doses let 90% of early-stage patients remain cancer free for five years, up from 77% of patients treated with older methods.
Donepezil was also more effective than another common Alzheimer's drug, memantine (Namenda), in patients with later-stage disease, although memantine still showed some benefit, according to the study published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine.
"At this stage we are still reviewing it, and until we have a chance to study the allegations, we won't have a comment, " said SAP spokesman Steve Bauer.
Using Interop as a platform for my own informal study on the state of the cloud, the technology has already moved beyond the hype stage and well into the adoption one.
On the bigger stage, in the fashion business, Zara is a b-school case study in how to copy catwalk design and to get them into the shop, pronto.
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