Drug Clinical Trials:
News on drug clinical trials, articles on tests or new drugs and medication.
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Jan 24th, 2009
The FDA has given Geron pharmaceuticals the okay to begin stem cell studies this summer. The California biotech company received FDA approval to implant human embryonic cells in eight to ten patients with spinal cord injury, beginning this summer. The studies will be performed at several hospitals throughout the country.
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Jan 12th, 2009
The efforts of FDA officials responsible for screening physicians involved in patient trials of pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices, as part of the agency's product approval process, appear to be inadequate in identifying potential conflicts of interest.
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Jan 7th, 2009
Research centers across the U.S. and those familiar with the prescription drug industry say that, as the U.S. economy weakens, more people are seeking to participate in paid clinical trials of new drugs.
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Dec 15th, 2008
Older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who were once told that nothing could be done for them are finding new hope – and life – through a clinical trial.
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Dec 15th, 2008
A drug once dismissed as ineffective in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has shown promising results in two phase I and II clinical trials.
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Dec 13th, 2008
New data from two early clinical studies show that RAD001 (everolimus) may overcome resistance to Herceptin (trastuzumab) in women with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.
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Dec 13th, 2008
Combining a well-known biologic agent with a new targeted anticancer drug triggers the death of melanoma cells that are resistant to therapy.
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Dec 12th, 2008
AFFiRiS has started pre-clinical development of a Parkinson's vaccine.
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Dec 10th, 2008
Results from a clinical study are helping to point the way toward the application of DNA-guided medicine to predict psychotropic side effects.
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Dec 10th, 2008
The largest study ever to examine the preventive use of blood-thinning medication to help prevent deadly blood clots in patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy was presented during the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology.
