Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 8, 2006
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(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:
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NEW YORK -- The pharmaceutical industry yesterday said it plans to publish more data about clinical drug trials, despite skepticism about whether the initiative will increase transparency and improve drug safety.
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A preview of some of the biopharmas presenting at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference.
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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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a widely prescribed arthritis treatment - more than doubled patients&#39; risk of heart problems in a clinical study. The announcement, 11 weeks after Merck &amp; Co.
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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. will announce plans for a large-scale clinical trial of the ability of blockbuster drug Celebrex to prevent heart attacks and strokes in patients with
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The Kootenai Medical Center's North Idaho Cancer Center will begin offering some patients the option of taking part in trials of experimental cancer drugs, starting in January.
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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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MONDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Little more than one in eight phase II cancer clinical trials with encouraging results go forward to the larger, phase III stage that&#39;s needed to bring a new therapy to patients, a new study finds.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Therapeutic vaccines to fight ovarian and breast cancer are in the first stage of clinical trials to determine their safety and effectiveness, researchers report.
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A U.S. advisory panel on Friday will review data on an experimental drug that is injected into the eye to stop vision loss in elderly patients at risk of going blind.
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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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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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The results from the new clinical trial could increase the chances that the Food and Drug Administration will approve the drug for that use.
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We have today been informed of new clinical trial data for celecoxib (Celebrex), showing an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and death (relative to placebo).
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc announced further clinical trial results on Sunday underlining the ability of a drug combination including its product Tykerb to fight breast cancer that has spread to the brain.
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A New Jersey court awards damages to Idaho couple in Vioxx case.Plus: SEC and OSC file complaints against former Nortel execs... Bush administration says it's fish farming season... and more.