Drug Clinical Trials:
News on drug clinical trials, articles on tests or new drugs and medication.
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Nov 11th, 2009
The American Medical Association has given medical marijuana a boost by urging the federal government to reconsider the classification of the drug in order to make it easier to begin more studies on the drug.
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Sep 23rd, 2009
Rush University is participating in a large-scale clinical trial to determine whether a vitamin-like substance, in high doses, can slow the progression of Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects about one million people in the United States.
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Sep 9th, 2009
With 30-40% of adults in the United States considered obese, their fat cells are a great source for stem cells. Scientists from Stanford have found fat cells removed during liposuction contain versatile cells that can be coaxed to become induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, easier than the skin cells most often used by researchers.
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Sep 3rd, 2009
Scientists are addressing the threat of antimicrobial drug resistance by launching two new clinical trials aimed at prolonging the effectiveness of currently available antibacterial drugs.
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Aug 13th, 2009
The first member of a new class of osteoporosis drugs reduced spinal fractures by about two-thirds in post-menopausal women and in men undergoing hormone-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer.
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Aug 5th, 2009
UCLA researchers have developed technology to perform more than a thousand chemical reactions at once on a stamp-size, PC-controlled microchip, which could accelerate the identification of potential drug candidates for treating diseases like cancer.
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Jul 21st, 2009
Placebos are a sham — usually mere sugar pills designed to represent "no treatment" in a clinical treatment study.
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Jul 3rd, 2009
A survey of more than 3,000 randomized clinical trials published in Chinese journals suggests that less than 10 per cent are actually randomized according to accepted guidelines.
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Jun 27th, 2009
Earlier this month the Empire State Stem Cell Board announced a decision which gives stem cell researchers in New York more access. The June 11 decision will allow the use of public money to purchase of eggs (oocytes) for research.
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Jun 9th, 2009
The use of the anti-thyroid drug propylthiouracil has been associated with the risk of serious liver injury. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning to health care professionals earlier this week regarding the drug which is used in the treatment of Graves' disease.