Clinical Trials Update: June 14, 2007
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(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:
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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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A new Web site and toll-free phone number unveiled this week should make it easier for patients to find clinical trials for cancer drugs.
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TORONTO - Some of the world&#39;s most prestigious medical journals have banded together to force pharmaceutical and medical device companies to report the full results of clinical trials, both positive and negative.
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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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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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A clinical trial of the blockbuster arthritis drug Celebrex was shut down yesterday after researchers found an increase in the risk of serious heart disease and strokes in those taking the
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Encouraging phase II results of a trial to test the efficacy of a malaria vaccine for young children is published in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (pp 1380, 1411).
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Les donnÃ©es indiquent une augmentation de la rÃ©ponse sÃ©rologique, virologique et biochimique aprÃ¨s 144 semaines de traitement sur des patients naÃ¯fs atteints de l&#39;hÃ©patite B antigÃ¨ne positif.
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Â· Lancet fast-tracks research sponsored by drug firm Â· Health advisers consider vaccinating older women
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FRIDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- The U.S. government announced Friday that it was halting the use of the painkiller Celebrex in a clinical trial on colorectal cancer patients after a study found an apparent increase in the risk of heart attack among those taking the drug.
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Six months after the drug industry vowed to make its clinical trials more transparent, and three months after launching a common website to give the public "unprecedented access" to studies both good and bad, drug companies have posted unpublished trial results on the site for just five drugs.
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration on Thursday ordered the review of preventative  studies involving Pfizer Inc.'s painkillers Celebrex and  Bextra, in light of recent evidence they may increase the risk  of heart attack and stroke.
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MONDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer treatment trials that are funded by drug companies are more likely to show positive results than studies sponsored by other sources, new research suggests.
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It's running trials to see if the drug can be used in earlier stages of cancer.
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(HealthDayNews) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) 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.