Last year, Tanner was enrolled in a clinical trial testing the drug, called drisapersen.
Then Wolchok put her in a trial testing ipilimumab with an experimental Medarex vaccine.
Schering-Plough and Merck insist the ENHANCE study, though troubled, is only one trial testing their cholesterol drugs.
Once again a trial testing the erythropoiesis-stimulating agent darbepoetin alfa (Aranesp, Amgen) has produced a negative result.
By contrast, Roche recently doubled the size of a trial testing a compound in patients with early-stage disease.
In contrast, an earlier trial testing of the drug with chemotherapy in colorectal cancer did seem to indicate a survival trend.
Merck and Schering-Plough have one trial testing whether Zetia prevents heart attack and stroke, and the study is not expected to end until 2012.
Schering-Plough has changed the start date listed in a government database for the key clinical trial testing the now-controversial cholesterol pill Vytorin, which Schering shares with Merck .
The companies didn't start a big trial testing whether adding Zetia to Zocor prevents heart attacks and strokes until three years after the drug was approved for sale.
Isis needs one in order to start a large and expensive clinical trial testing its drug in patients who have high cholesterol that is not caused by a genetic defect.
In a large trial testing of the cox-2 drug from Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ), Prexige, some saw hints that ibuprofen might up heart risk.
To reach this goal Harvard's Ridker is leading a 15, 000-patient trial testing whether AstraZeneca's statin drug, Crestor, can prevent heart attacks in patients with normal cholesterol levels but high C-reactive protein levels.
Meanwhile, Dr. Allayee at USC plans to begin a 200-patient clinical trial testing whether leukotriene blockers like Singulair can prevent atherosclerosis in high-risk patients, as soon as he can obtain government funding.
The National Institutes of Health announced Monday that it had halted a clinical trial testing whether naproxen and Celebrex, an arthritis pill made by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), might prevent Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Wolf, of Northwestern University, and other researchers, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, recently completed a trial testing a pill-bottle label that provides more explicit instructions and larger font size.
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"It's been twenty years since famous names had their faces on the cover of Time magazine saying this would be the magic bullet, " says Norman Wolmark Chairman of Oncology at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and an investigator in a trial testing Eloxatan.
The trial was testing the pill, SU-11248, as a treatment for gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST).
Initially, Medtronic and Genzyme will work to complete an ongoing 300-patient trial in Europe testing whether injecting skeletal myoblasts into damaged areas of the heart during cardiac bypass surgery helps improve symptoms and reduces hospitalizations in heart failure patients.
Valuable data could be collected with an NEO trial run, particularly testing Orion's high-speed heat shields.
The results came from a trial called Adapt, testing naproxen and Celebrex as preventatives for Alzheimer's disease.
Some rivals argue AstraZeneca should have done a better job narrowing the field of trial patients by first testing tumors for EGFR levels and admitting only those with elevated levels of the protein.
Novartis announced today the early termination of the ALTITUDE trial, which was testing the effect of the direct renin inhibitor aliskiren (Rasilez, Tekturna) in type 2 diabetics at high risk for cardiovascular and renal events.
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In order to finish the trial quickly, Glaxo is testing the response generated by the immune system due to the vaccine.
According to NASA spokesman Ken Davidian, the space agency spends huge sums in the trial and error phase of testing an idea.
AstraZeneca is in the middle of a second Phase IIb trial of its AZD6765 compound, testing it in 282 people.
If this trial is successful, then further testing is planned to see how well the new molecule performs in combination therapy.
For years, testing companies have embedded trial questions in real tests.
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Lilly and Sankyo have high hopes for the drug, and are testing in a big trial to prove that prasugrel is better that Plavix in preventing heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events in patients at high risk.
Trial versions of anti-virus products are good for testing products but they do not receive updates, so any new virus that is introduced after the trial version was released will have total access to your PC.
Riello said the appellate court was too dismissive in casting aside DNA evidence that led to the conviction in the lower court, arguing that another trial could make way for more definitive testing.
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