The problem with trial lawyers performing a regulatory function is that lawsuits take years or even decades to come to trial, meanwhile the company producing bad products continues business as usual, profiting while increasing the number of victims.

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The trial project is essentially a five-story brick edifice specially constructed to function like a honeycomb.

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The trial did not meet its primary endpoint, a joint rank analysis of function and survival, and no efficacy was seen in the individual components of function or survival.

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The study included 83 patients who had strokes at least six months before they entered the trial and had chronic deficits in their ability to walk, motor and sensory function, and manual dexterity.

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The drug worked in a midstage trial of 419 IBS patients, reducing pain and improving bowel function.

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She said the doses used in the Aids trial were three times higher than over the counter levels and the tests were done on healthy people, whose liver function would be different to that of HIV and Aids patients.

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