Clinical Trials Update:&nbsp;Oct. 20, 2004
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(HealthDayNews) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
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Description: A consortium of leading medical journals wants to prevent publication of clinical trial results that overemphasize positive data.
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NEWS: In 2002, weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top US health officials were warned that research about the drug, nevirapine, was flawed
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roundup Plus: Supercomputer center gets new No. 2...MIT, Caltech offer low-tech voting advice...Siemens builds phone to detect bad breath.
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Pfizer Inc&#39;s experimental oral  biotechnology drug axitinib demonstrated substantial anti-tumor  activity in patients with advanced thyroid cancer in a small,  mid-stage clinical trial, according to data released at a major  cancer meeting on Saturday.
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Panacos releases more clinical trial results for an exciting drug.
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The pharmaceutical industry made a commitment Thursday to publish more data about clinical drug trials, amid growing questions about the safety of many leading companies' medicines.
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SEATTLE, WASH., October 19, 2004--A Stony Brook University researcher is testing a new form of aspirin--one that is much more potent than its commercially available counterpart, but with almost none of the side effects--to determine whether it can be used
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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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NEW YORK - Johnson &amp; Johnson and Boston Scientific Corp. reported new safety data yesterday for drug-coated stents that may help revive sales depressed by prior reports linking the devices to a higher risk of heart attacks.
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roundup Plus: Senate postpones vote on file-swapping bill...HP may expand Puerto Rican research...HP also uses Hitachi drives in servers, storage...Microsoft boosts reporting tools.
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In general, chemotherapy appears to increase the risk of stroke in patients with breast cancer. However, researchers report in the October 20th issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Acorda announces positive clinical trial data.
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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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Promising trials for a hepatitis C treatment bode well for the pharmaceutical.
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The company faces a pivotal clinical trial.
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A preview of some of the biopharmas presenting at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference.