This latest deal suggests Twitter has moved beyond the trial stage for advertisers.
The 31-year-old Garmin rider snatched the pink jersey from Spain's Joaquim Rodriguez on the final time trial stage in Milan, forging a winning margin of just 16 seconds after 21 stages.
Most mobile-health projects are still at the trial stage, but a report compiled in 2008 by the UN Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation documented around 50 such projects across the developing world.
Now Glaxo is conducting giant final-stage trial in over 2000 early-stage lung cancer patients.
According to the companies, the FDA sent a complete response letter regarding the trial-stage drug Horizant, which is in the form of an extended-release pill taken to lessen pain caused by the condition.
The vaccine showed a trend towards higher survival in its initial trial, is now in a final stage trial in 1300 patients with inoperable lung cancer.
Hopes were raised when the companies decided to start a late-stage trial of the drug, but data from mid-stage trials is not yet available, so it's difficult to know whether that bet will pay off.
The trial was successful, and now the vaccine, called GVAX, has begun a final-stage trial on 600 patients at biotech firm Cell Genesys.
Dimebon is already in final-stage trial in over 500 patients and could provide a ready successor.
In June, Myriad Genetics said its Flurizan anti-amyloid drug was totally ineffective in a final-stage trial.
Even more intensely awaited are the results of a second-stage trial of Wyeth's antibody, bapineuzumab.
Amgen's late-stage trial, in 8, 000 women, is expected to finish up in the second half of next year.
Last year, Avastin failed to help breast cancer patients in a late-stage trial.
Its new drug, an inhibitor of the enzyme cathepsin K, showed promising results in a mid-stage trial earlier this year.
It is in a mid-stage trial that could serve as the basis of an FDA approval if it is successful.
Now, a mid-stage trial might be enrolled by the end of this year and finished by the middle of next.
Next step: another final-stage trial with 600 more patients injected with antisense and Gemzar, Lilly's chemo drug for lung cancer.
If this works, the companies would likely move quickly into final-stage trial using Medtronic's catheter to deliver the cells without surgery.
Results from a final-stage trial on 275 patients are due next year.
Another early-stage trial is combining Tarceva and Avastin in colon cancer patients.
The company plans to move directly into a final-stage trial and is working on how to provide a diagnostic test for the gene.
Wyeth and Elan began final-stage trials of their antibody on 4, 000 patients in December, without waiting for the full results of their 240-patient second-stage trial.
At center stage at the conference is Elan , which will present detailed data late Tuesday from a second-stage trial of its amyloid-busting drug, bapineuzumab.
Amgen has begun a massive final-stage trial program on over 9, 000 patients aiming to show that AMG-162 is more powerful and convenient than existing osteoporosis drugs.
Privately held biotech firm Tolerx, allied with GlaxoSmithkline, aims to begin, by summer, a final-stage trial of its anti-CD3 drug, otelixizumab, in 250 newly diagnosed adults.
Good news for Dendreon and its prostate cancer treatment, Provenge: a rival medicine from AstraZeneca, zibotentan, failed to extend survival in a late stage trial.
In June, Myriad Genetics (nasdaq: MYGN - news - people ) said its Flurizan anti-amyloid drug was totally ineffective in a final-stage trial.
The vaccine sped into a second-stage trial amid worldwide excitement.
Pfizer has already moved into a final-stage trial of the drug in lung cancer and hopes to apply for approval early next year for treating lung cancer.
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The first late-stage trial of Ranexa's potential appeared in 1999.
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