Instead, Tularik is conducting a 750-patient clinical test at cancer centers all over the world.
That makes it pretty easy to get into a clinical test, if you meet the enrollment criteria.
Yesterday evening, Genentech released results of a midstage clinical test of its colorectal cancer drug Avastin in combination with chemotherapy.
Founded in 1976, Cincinnati-based Meridian makes, sells and distributes clinical diagnostic test kits for gastrointestinal, viral, respiratory, and parasitic infectious diseases.
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The group is now trying to conduct a clinical trial to test psilocybin as a treatment.
Owning the technology may give Lilly a bit of an edge in developing clinical trials to test its own medicines.
She is about to begin a clinical trial to test Avastin in lung cancer patients whose cancer has spread to the brain.
We are very close to a clinical trial to test for efficacy.
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The research team plans another clinical trial to test whether letting children take RAGE Control home, to play with parents and siblings, will increase its effect.
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In a risky move, GlaxoSmithKline says it will conduct a 1, 000-patient clinical trial to test its vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, Cervarix, against a rival product made by Merck.
Green, who has been practicing for two decades, and a UM colleague, biomedical engineer Scott Hollister, had been working for years toward a clinical trial to test the splint in children with pulmonary issues when they got a phone call from a physician in Ohio who was aware of their research.
Initially, a court argued that Apotex's generic didn't run afoul of Glaxo's patents because some of the clinical trials done to test the drug essentially put it in the public domain.
Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) decision is based on new three-year data from a clinical trial designed to test the effect of Vioxx on preventing colorectal polyps.
It is irresponsible to offer testing without legitimate access to pre-test counselling and clinical support.
The test is a multiple-choice exam used to test judgement in clinical scenarios.
Clinical trials in Thailand will test one of Aventis' vaccines in combination with a vaccine developed by Brisbane, Calif.
We've had furtive glances of Sony's upcoming NEX-6 before, but only in the very clinical space of a government test lab.
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Clinical trials would be needed to test the safety and effectiveness of the treatment, he added.
We need a period of further clinical research to determine whether a test is valuable or acceptable.
The new outfit, Transcelerate Biopharma, was created out of a regular meeting of drug company research chiefs and will focus on five areas where the clinical trials that are used to test medicines wastefully duplicate procedures like training physicians, running websites, or creating procedures to document the benefits and side effects of new medicines.
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He expects the results to be "completely consistent" with the high detection rates shown in clinical trials, though he acknowledged the test had missed the New York case.
Personal genomics may turn out to be an expensive way to be told to eat more greens and do more exercise but once that information becomes complex, professional clinical interpretation should be provided with the test.
The antidepressant gene test failed in trials, and Clinical Data sold the pharmacogenomics business.
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Winning approval for Glybera proved particularly challenging because the company was only able to test it on 27 patients in clinical trials, due to the rarity of the condition.
Clinical trials are expected to begin later this year to test the drug's effectiveness in humans.
"Because it accounts for 40% of clinical expression of asthma it could be used for a powerful screening test in children, " he added.
In reality, the scans are more likely to pick up "incidentalomas"--blips that don't necessarily mean anything but require a follow-up test, says Dr. Roseanne Leipzig, professor of clinical and geriatric medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
"The devastating conditions suffered by the Bangladeshi refugees as they fled the war with Pakistan offered ORT (oral rehydration therapy) its definitive test, " according to an August 2003 paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Charles Francis , a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester who headed up this clinical trial, says that these results are especially promising because orthopedic surgery is a difficult test of an anticoagulant.
Makers of drug-coated stents could be hurt further by results from a clinical trial being released at the end of the month--even though the study will test few, if any, of these drug-releasing devices.
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