"This is a randomised clinical trial which is the gold standard for producing evidence, " she added.
The Phase III trial will compare TroVax plus standard kidney cancer treatment and a dummy version plus standard treatment.
The most immediate sales impact could come from the surprise finding that the company's bone-boosting drug Zometa slashed the recurrence of breast cancer in pre-menopausal women by about 35% in an 1, 800 person trial, when combined with standard treatment.
Merit Cudkowicz, an ALS researcher at Harvard Medical School who was an investigator on a standard lithium clinical trial, said social network-generated data can offer valuable insights, but she cautioned that the PatientsLikeMe study was not a substitute for more rigorous studies.
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The giant trial showed that was somewhat better than the standard drug warfarin in preventing strokes, at least among those who stayed on the drugs during the whole trial period.
One trial is pitting the drug against standard therapy among colon cancer patients with liver metastases, looking to slow the time it takes the cancer to progress.
That would be the standard approach in a clinical trial.
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Today, eDiscovery is standard operating procedure during a trial.
Competency to stand trial is a very (VERY) low standard, among the lowest in the legal system.
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For one, the groups noted the analysis is a retrospective study, not a prospective, randomized controlled clinical trial, which many regard as a gold standard for ferreting out safety concerns.
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In healthcare, our gold standard for good evidence is the randomized controlled trial, in which, for example, half the patients receive a new drug and half receive a placebo.
The gold standard for testing medical treatments is the randomized trial, in which patients are randomly assigned to a treatment or control group to spread patient differences evenly and avoid bias in results.
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The latest trial does not provide a comparison to the current "gold standard, " but "researchers are planning to study combinations of the pill and camptosar as well, " said Hoff.
The experts described a very specific clinical trial that would put Natrecor through the ringer, comparing it to the standard of care in heart failure.
It would be useful to develop a future trial to evaluate patients who undergo surgery, but who do not receive standard physical therapy, but rather a home based program of exercises.
After the two-year trial period for under-26s, the CPE was to revert to a standard full-time contract.
In a 5-4 ruling two weeks ago, both Mr Roberts and Mr Alito joined the majority in ruling that evidence seized after the police knocked on a door and waited only three to five seconds, rather than the standard 15-20 seconds, need not be excluded from a trial.
In an initial trial last year, the drug delayed growth of sarcoma by about three months versus standard treatment.
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Defence lawyers for the men argued that the standard of that evidence was not high enough to commit the men for trial.
When trying to find out if something will work - be it a new policy, a new drug, a new teaching method - the gold standard of evidence is what comes out of a properly conducted random controlled trial.
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The trial involved 1, 608 patients followed for five years, and compared UFT to a standard chemotherapy regimen that must be infused slowly into patients' veins.
The standard of care shifted for many doctors after the Women's Health Initiative trial was halted, but updated recommendations from the task force are important because many patients still have questions, and many doctors are reluctant to let go of old prescribing habits, Crandall said.
The new trial will assess the benefits of the drug as a first line treatment on patients considered unsuitable for standard chemotherapy.
Heart patients who get standard treatment get better quickly, so it is hard to tell without doing a rigorous trial whether it was due to the new treatment or now.
Terry was found not guilty in July but the FA found him guilty on 27 September, using the "balance of probabilities" as its standard of proof as opposed to the "beyond reasonable doubt" ruling used in a criminal trial.
As best as we can tell, T-Systems' DVB-H trial wrapped up in December, so yeah, that pretty much spells the death of the so-called standard in Bavaria.
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