Clinical Trials Update: Sept. 14, 2007
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(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:
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A report to be released on Friday finds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of patients who help test drugs in clinical trials, The New York Times reports.
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Many clinical cancer trials are not published in order to keep industry secrets. A British cancer research group calls for all studies to be published -- even those with marginal results -- so doctors are not misled.
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ASK YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT VIOXX . . . but not for the reasons Merck &amp; Co. recommends. Last week a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study found a link with heart attacks, and several large health insurers said
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDayNews) -- The timing of systemic chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer does not affect patient survival or disease progression, say researchers reporting in the Feb. 2 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug for multiple sclerosis that in clinical trials got better results than existing drugs in protecting against relapses.
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Two newly published studies in the September 17, 2004 issue of Science give rise to the possibility of developing drug therapies that target eosinophils, white blood cells long known to be associated with the asthma.
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Researchers at Merck can use neural stem-cell tech in early stages of drug development. Plus: Pay for eggs OK in Britain. In Bodyhack.
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It can be incredibly difficult for patients to ferret out studies of experimental drugs that offer hope to threat their disease. There is no comprehensive database of ongoing clinical trials, but specialists offer advice for the search:
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The company faces a pivotal clinical trial.
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The risk of treatment-related (toxic) death for cancer patients enrolled in phase 1 clinical trials had decreased significantly over the past 12 years (from 1991 to 2002), according to an article in the November 3 issue of JAMA.
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roundup Plus: SanDisk ups capacity on flash memory cards...Google tests Froogle in U.K....Senate postpones vote on file-swapping bill...HP may expand Puerto Rican research.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) learned yesterday from AstraZeneca that a large clinical trial comparing Iressa (gefitinib) with placebo in patients with non-small cell lung cancer who had failed other courses of cancer therapy showed no survival
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Robert B. Saper, MD, MPH ; Stefanos N. Kales, MD, MPH ; Janet Paquin, PhD ; Michael J. Burns, MD ; David M. Eisenberg, MD ; Roger B. Davis, ScD ; Russell S. Phillips, MD.
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Clinical trial data released by pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim at the 44th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in Washington, DC, on its experimental protease inhibitor tipranavir show that the drug is effective
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The Food and Drug Administration will examine clinical trial data for thousands of depressed adults to see if they, like children, suffered increased suicidal thoughts and behaviors while taking antidepressants.    Dr...
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The findings of the 'American-Australian-African trial with DronedarONe In atrial fibrillation or flutter patients for the maintenance of Sinus rhythm' (ADONIS) trial, announced at the annual meeting of the ...