Roche provided partial funding to the clinical study together with Galena and the Henry Jackson Foundation.
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Results from the clinical study show that most participants were able to perform basic activities better with the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System than without it.
Dr Heneghan has also spent 'four to five months' negotiating access to data from GSK, makers of Relenza but has yet to receive the clinical study reports.
The RECORD study is the largest clinical trial designed to evaluate the cardiovascular safety of Avandia.
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Her science background helps her predict whether or not drugs will win approval and she's able to judge the risk reward profile based upon the current midstage clinical study.
The FDA reviewed data that included a clinical study of 30 study participants with RP who received the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System.
From January 2014 the European Medicines Agency will publish all clinical study reports - the data behind medical trials, which often run into hundreds of pages.
While the FDA approved the vaccine for the above age group last December, the CDC is waiting for the efficacy results of an ongoing clinical study (Pfizer expects to complete the trials by 2013) before deciding on broader recommendations.
Abbott says its studies show no added risk, and one supporter, German cardiologist Klaus Mathias, says the French study was the most poorly run clinical trial he had ever seen.
Last OCTOBER, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, GSK, announced that it would make patient-level data available and publish the results of both clinical study reports (CSRs) and clinical trials.
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Roche says it has published 71 out of 74 Tamiflu trial results but these can be just short summaries and not the raw data of clinical study reports which can run into hundreds of pages.
Second, the Journal of Clinical Nutrition should not have published the study, given that the evidence for the alleged connection between artificial sweeteners and cancer was no more compelling than a dice roll.
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That could take 3, 000 patients--the JAMA study lumps together clinical trials of less than 1, 000 people.
Another issue is that unlike some clinical trials, the study does not end after a fixed period of time.
At that point, assuming we like the way its coming together, we negotiate a pre-defined exit path for a possible investment: upon successful completion of XYZ clinical study, the Pharma will buyout the asset-centric entity in an upfront plus milestones type transaction.
Doctors might switch patients from Zyprexa to competing drugs if they follow the recommendations, which came from a one-day panel co-sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity.
The point is, there are many different types of clinical study, covering all aspects of medicine, so the scope of research in the NHS goes way beyond most people's perception.
One solution is to ignore the scientific reasons underpinning the difference, and to do a big clinical study--probably involving tens of thousands of patients with arthritis--to compare the risk of heart attack for the various drugs.
Developed by tiny biotech firm Galena Biopharma (GALE), Neu Vax is now in the initial phases of a third clinical study that.
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The National Institute for Clinical Excellence, a government body set up to study the efficacy of drugs and treatments, is currently looking at Taxol.
Men and women infected with HIV reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by taking oral antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems were relatively healthy, according to findings from a large-scale clinical study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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"Indeed, one of the 'early' strains identified in the study is currently being re-evaluated in clinical trials funded by the EU, " they said.
The FDA analysis of posted clinical trial data from May 2012 appears to contradict the BMJ study.
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In contrast, the American Psychiatric Association highlights the fact that a phase 3 study of the vaccine reported in 2011 yielded disappointing clinical results, demonstrating that the vaccine was no more effective than placebo.
Dr Jones told BBC News Online that while most of the problematic behaviours uncovered in the study were not severe enough to be diagnosed as a clinical eating disorder they were still quite significant and placed the girls at risk for the development of conditions such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
The study was conducted in a clinical room used for research at the University of Utah School of Medicine's Department of Anesthesiology.
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In December of 2001, Merck seemed to indicate it would mount such a study--but the clinical trial never seems to have materialized, even though the firm started a similar trial for Arcoxia, a successor drug to Vioxx.
In 2001, the company said it would to conduct a big study testing Vioxx's heart safety, but the clinical trial never materialized.
He notes that in the June 6th meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, the ZIOPHARM-Intrexon synthetic biology partnership presented promising study results for patients with melanoma.
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"The record, in short, is one of careful analysis at every stage, a continued commitment to research and prompt and decisive action in response to clinical-study results, " the scientists say.
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