Clinical Trials Update: Dec. 18, 2006
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(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:
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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a common website to give the public "unprecedented access" to studies both good and bad, drug companies have posted unpublished trial results on the site for just five drugs.
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Here's what a newly approved drug looks like.
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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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The drug industry, fighting off  criticism for hiding data from negative studies, unveiled on  Tuesday a database for firms to voluntarily provide summarized  results of most clinical trials of medicines sold in the United  States.
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In a clinical trial of about 200 patients, an experimental drug from Eli Lilly lessened schizophrenia symptoms without the serious side effects of current treatments, according to a paper published Sunday in the journal Nature.
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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.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- There were important advances in the detection and treatment of cancer this year -- more people than ever are now surviving the disease -- but cuts in government cancer research dollars could slow progress in the fight.
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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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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 data are due out on a promising cholesterol drug. But there are doubters.
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MONDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- New research may someday provide another treatment option for patients battling deadly pancreatic cancer.
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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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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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Drugmakers are working on experimental diabetes drugs using a novel mechanism to help flush excess blood sugar out of the body, according to results of small studies presented at a medical meeting on Sunday.
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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.