Clinical Trials Update: Jan. 7, 2008
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(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:
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China&#39;s SARS vaccine trials are expected to be completed by January as clinical experiments are going smoothly, state media reports.
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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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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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questions over testing of a key HIV/AIDS drug before a US-backed roll-out of the treatment across the continent. Ingelheim to hide adverse effects of nevirapine when used to try to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.
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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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In a recent trial, a pain medication wasn't as effective as had been hoped.
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Elson So, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and colleagues report their findings in the Nov. 9 issue of the journal Neurology.
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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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THURSDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDayNews) -- The results of a multi-center trial involving a quartet of drugs may bring fresh hope to patients battling advanced colorectal cancer, researchers reported Thursday.
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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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NEW YORK - Today at the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference, AtheroGenics was met with pointed skepticism over trial results for its drug, AGI-1067.
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Pfizer Inc'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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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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SUNDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers are launching a phase I clinical trial to test an engineered measles virus against the bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma.
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Washington - Scientists and patient advocates this week united to defend an HIV treatment against allegations that a key clinical trial of the drug was flawed.