The data monitoring committee overseeing the trial said patients were unlikely to benefit from the treatment, and identified higher adverse events in the subjects receiving the drug compares to placebo.
If you compare the closing argument of majority counsel and the majority report filed by the committee and the trial brief filed by the House and the presentation of the managers last week, you will begin to understand what has happened here.
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Smith, also a co-chairman of the trial lawyers' civility committee.
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Novartis was informed that the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) overseeing ALTITUDE had recommended stopping the trial because Tekturna was unlikely to show any benefit, and potential safety concerns had been identified in these high-risk patients.
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Most experts expect the committee to simply allow the trial to continue until its conclusion.
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The chairman of the council's licensing committee, councillor John Robson, said the results of a trial in 2007 were "overwhelmingly amazing".
Labour and Liberal Democrat members blocked an amendment by SNP MSP Michael Matheson to ensure that all evidence, including the defence case, is led before a trial can proceed in absence - despite this being recommended in the committee's Stage One report.
Caroline Pidgeon, chair of the committee, said the mayor should trial "creative ideas" to improve safety.
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Designed to last up to five years, the trial was stopped after less than two because endpoints set by an independent oversight committee were met, the study says.
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The Justice Department and the Plaintiffs Steering Committee, the lead private attorneys in the case, have vowed to prove at trial that BP was grossly negligent and that it engaged in willful misconduct in causing the spill.
Evidence in the trial was provided to police by the management standards committee set up by the News of the World's owner, the Met Police said.
Then the International Olympic Committee stripped him of the bronze medal he won in the men's individual time trial at the 2000 Olympic Games and asked him to return the award, an IOC spokesman said Thursday.
Gov. Haley Barbour, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, is a prohibitive favorite against wealthy trial lawyer John Arthur Eaves Jr. (D), whose father sought the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in the 1975, '79 and '87 primaries.
Today, under a trial scheme, MPs use a Grand Committee Room off the hall (a) to hold debates in parallel with the House of Commons, while the main hall is often used for public ceremonies and displays.
Key data being used to argue that Vytorin does not cause cancer come from two ongoing studies whose results would normally be known only by a top-secret committee charged with guarding the safety of patients in the trial.
The decision to the end trial, which was called Beacone, was recommended by an Independent Data Monitoring committee.
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Rival AstraZeneca said it had stopped its 15, 000-patient clinical trial of its Crestor because an independent safety committee said there was proof the drug prevents heart attacks, strokes and deaths.
Rival AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) said it had stopped its 15, 000-patient clinical trial of its Crestor because an independent safety committee said there was proof the drug prevents heart attacks, strokes and deaths.
This study had neither a steering committee, as a group of experts who regularly convened to discuss the trial and its data, nor a data safety monitoring board (DSMB), which carefully watches study information to make sure patients are not harmed.
The committee's Stage 1 report found "some merit" in allowing a trial to go ahead in the absence of the accused once all the evidence had been led and called on ministers to amend the proposals along these lines.
The Jordanian Bar Association has set up a defence committee to ensure that he gets a fair trial.
He faces a trial in Washington later this year over allegations he gave illegal political contributions to the Democratic National Committee and arranged for other illegal donations.
As the trial has progressed, lawyers representing Lehman, liquidation trustee James W. Giddens and the official committee of unsecured creditors have probed various witnesses over a number of disputed assets that they contend should not have been part of the deal.
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"This is not a trial, " declared the Labour MP for Walsall South, Valerie Vaz as the Commons Health Select Committee began questioning of the boss of the NHS in England, Sir David Nicholson, about his part in the Stafford Hospital scandal.
The content of his proposed topics is expected to be covered by other speakers as agency staff plan to summarize the available data on the cardiovascular safety of rosiglitazone at the committee meeting, and multiple FDA speakers will address their review of the readjudication of RECORD trial based on the study reports submitted to the Agency.
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John Edwards, D-North Carolina, a successful trial lawyer and potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, got a seat on the Judiciary committee -- a high profile perch for battling White House judicial nominations.
Congressman Edcel Lagman, chairman of the House of Representatives justice committee, cites recent surveys showing that only about a third of Filipinos expect a speedy trial in a court case.
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