Drug Clinical Trials:
News on drug clinical trials, articles on tests or new drugs and medication.
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Mar 23rd, 2009
Trials to test acupressure wrist bands as a drug-free alternative for chemotherapy-related nausea are to take place at the University of Liverpool.
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Mar 22nd, 2009
The first TB vaccine clinical trials on humans start in Canada Mid-April. Canadian researchers plan to recruit 48 healthy volunteers between 18 and 55 years old to take part in the first clinical trials to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a vaccine against TB in humans.
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Mar 21st, 2009
Because behavior plays a key role in many health conditions, federally funded research that compares the effectiveness of one treatment type with another for the same condition – “comparative effectiveness research” -- should include behavioral and psychosocial interventions, as well as medical interventions.
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Mar 19th, 2009
Women who received the experimental vaccine in a clinical trialwere 50 percent less likely to later become infected with CMV than were women who received a saline injection.
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Feb 25th, 2009
Rosuvastatin reduces by nearly 50 percent the risk of stroke among individuals who had low levels of cholesterol but were nonetheless at high risk for stroke due to increased levels of a simple blood test for the inflammatory biomarker hsCRP (high sensitivity C-reactive protein).
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Feb 21st, 2009
Top-tier U.S.-based pharmaceutical companies are moving their clinical trials overseas at warp speed, raising questions about ethics, quality control, and even the scientific value of their findings for people back in the U.S.
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Feb 19th, 2009
Like many other businesses, it seems science has been globalized. A report published today in the New England Journal of Medicine by Duke University researchers highlights an increasing trend toward FDA-approved research being conducted, not in the United States, but in other countries around the world.
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Feb 18th, 2009
In a study published February 18, 2009 in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Russ Altman, MD, PhD, describes how a patient's genetic profile can be used to custom tailor warfarin drug dosing. The coumadin derivative warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven, Marevan, Waran) is a widely prescribed oral anticoagulant used long-term for the prevention of blood clots.
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Feb 10th, 2009
A team of Arizona psychologists, geneticists and neuroscientists has reported that a safe and effective drug used to treat vascular problems in the brain has improved spatial learning and working memory in middle-aged rats.
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Jan 26th, 2009
A new study offers more proof that thimerosal -- a mercury-based preservative once used in many vaccines -- poses no threat to children's brains. There has been intense debate about whether thimerosal causes autism, a link repeatedly discounted in scientific studies.
