Paion recently unveiled results of a midstage trial that took advantage of a new imaging method, called diffusion-perfusion MRI, to pinpoint patients best suited to receive the drug up to nine hours after a stroke.

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His firm hopes to convince the government to fund a giant clinical trial of the method on emergency room patients.

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Menasche's initial trial of the method on ten patients showed tantalizing hints of efficacy, but because there was no control group, it is impossible to tell whether the improvements seen were due to the cell transplant or to the bypass surgery the patients also received.

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Alam and Tisherman aim to begin a 50-patient trial of the deep chill method at several urban trauma centers by year-end.

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Professor Kimler's team are using their method to select women for a clinical trial of a breast cancer drug called DFMO.

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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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In a trial of 85 people with mild asthma, the symptoms of those using the Papworth method alongside drugs were significantly eased, Thorax reports.

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