Not exact matches
«It will enable them to better
target products they move into
clinical testing, so they have better chances
of success,» he says.
Merck is the latest company to weather bad news in the Alzheimer's drug race, halting a late - stage trial yesterday in an experimental amyloid -
targeting candidate called verubecestat after a data monitoring committee said there was «virtually no chance
of finding a positive
clinical effect,» Reuters reported.
As the Alzheimer's Association notes, until recently, «
clinical trials were conducted where up to 30 %
of participants did not have the Alzheimer's disease - related brain change
targeted by the experimental drug.»
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA — July 25, 2017 — Kezar Life Sciences, a private,
clinical - stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel small molecule therapeutics
targeting the immunoproteasome and the protein secretion pathway, announced today that it has closed an oversubscribed Series B investment round
of $ 50 million led by Cormorant Asset Management and Morningside Venture.
This active IND enables Aura to begin initial
clinical testing
of AU - 011, a unique
targeted therapy that could transform the primary treatment
of patients with OM, a rare and life - threatening disease.
Cambridge, MA — March 30, 2017 — Aura Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing a new class
of therapies to
target and selectively destroy cancer cells using viral nanoparticle conjugates, announced today that it has enrolled and dosed the first patient in its Phase 1b
clinical trial
of light - activated AU - 011, an investigational, first - in - class
targeted therapy in development for the treatment
of ocular melanoma, a rare and life - threatening disease.
We need to design
clinical trials and outcomes in a way that captures the downsides
of aging in a quantitative way» that allows
targets for drug approvals by the FDA.
She oversees several NIMH funded
clinical trials
targeting the motivational system to enhance the drive to improve one's quality
of life and health outcomes.
Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1 November 2017 — Cristal Therapeutics, a
clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing
targeted nanomedicines for the treatment
of cancer and other diseases with high unmet patient need, announced today that it has begun a Phase 1b...
Man U had two shots on
target yesterday and still got the win because
of a
clinical striker that, surprisingly, used to play for us.
We can complain too much about the
clinical side
of the game from Arsenal this weekend, as the equalising goal headed in by Olivier Giroud just before injury time came from our one and only shot on
target from the Premier League away game against Manchester United.
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Clinical Chelsea earn Mourinho third League Cup (Capital One Cup) Reaction: Man City stirrings give Pellegrini Barça hope (Champions League) Report: Suárez scores brace as Barcelona down Man City (Champions League) Reaction: Rodgers plots Liverpool assault on top four (Premier League) Report: Coutinho rocket sinks seething Southampton (Premier League) Reaction: Van Gaal defends Man United's «long - ball» tactics (Premier League) Report: Blind late show rescues spluttering Man United (Premier League) Reaction: Pellegrini remains hopeful as Mourinho sulks (Premier League) Report: Silva keeps Man City on Chelsea's heels (Premier League) Reaction: Mourinho cries foul over Costa «stamp» claims (Capital One Cup) Report: Ivanović sinks Liverpool as Chelsea reach final (Capital One Cup) Reaction: Odds were against Man United — Van Gaal (FA Cup) Report: Minnows Cambridge hold Man United in FA Cup (FA Cup) Reaction: Rodgers buoyed by Sterling - inspired Liverpool (Capital One Cup) Report: Sterling slalom checks Chelsea in League Cup (Capital One Cup) Reaction: Arsenal masterclass sets standard, says Wenger (Premier League) Report: Cazorla stars as Arsenal stun Man City (Premier League) Reaction: Van Gaal defends methods after United defeat (Premier League) Report: Tadić strike punishes shot - shy Man United (Premier League) Report: Bloodied Skrtel earns Liverpool a point (Premier League) Reaction: In - form United «forcing luck», says Van Gaal (Premier League) Report: De Gea stars as United deepen Liverpool gloom (Premier League) Reaction: Liverpool will «fight» for return — Rodgers (Champions League) Report: Basel thwart Liverpool to reach last 16 (Champions League) Reaction: Van Persie rescued United, admits Van Gaal (Premier League) Report: Van Persie sends lacklustre Man United third (Premier League) Report: Agüero undoes Southampton as Man City go second (Premier League) Report: Stunning Agüero treble gives Man City hope (Champions League) Reaction: Hodgson dismayed by England fan chants (friendly) Report: Rooney at the double as England silence Scots (friendly) Report: Rooney, Welbeck inspire England fightback (Euro 2016 qualifying) Report: Tevez returns as Argentina overcome Croatia (friendly) Reaction: Man City have «crisis
of confidence» — Pellegrini (Champions League) Report: Nine - man Man City left on brink by CSKA Moscow (Champions League) Reaction: Van Gaal says beaten Man United getting closer (Premier League) Report: Agüero gives City spoils against 10 - man United (Premier League) Reaction: Shocks are warning for England, says Hodgson (Euro 2016 qualifying) Report: Rooney on mark as England school San Marino (Euro 2016 qualifying) Reaction: Mourinho urges Chelsea to stay grounded (Premier League) Reaction: Wenger plays down Mourinho touchline spat (Premier League) Report: Hazard, Costa sink Arsenal in stormy derby (Premier League) Reaction: Pellegrini rues carelessness after Roma hold City (Champions League) Report: Totti makes history as Roma thwart Man City (Champions League) Reaction: Rodgers heartened by Liverpool resilience (Champions League) Reaction: Van Gaal wants more from match - winner Di María (Premier League) Report: Falcao debuts as Man United crush QPR (Premier League) Reaction: Hodgson hails Welbeck for biding his time (Euro 2016 qualifying) Report: Welbeck gives improved England winning start (Euro 2016 qualifying) Reaction: Angry Hodgson dismisses England statistics (friendly) Report: Rooney rescues England in turgid Norway win (friendly) Reaction: Wenger backs Sánchez to fill Giroud's shoes (Champions League) Reaction: Pellegrini gladdened by Jovetić display (Premier League) Report: Jovetić at the double as Man City sink Liverpool (Premier League) Reaction: Ancelotti predicts «new cycle» for Madrid (UEFA Super Cup) Report: Ronaldo still the boss as Madrid win Super Cup (UEFA Super Cup) Reaction: Wembley win sets tone for Arsenal — Wenger (Community Shield) Report: Vibrant Arsenal down Man City in Community Shield (Community Shield) Reaction: «Lethargic» Arsenal not ready yet — Wenger (Emirates Cup) Report: Falcao scores comeback goal to sink Arsenal (Emirates Cup) Reaction: Wenger enthused by Sanogo - Campbell double act (Emirates Cup) Report: Sanogo upstages Sánchez in Arsenal romp (Emirates Cup)
Manchester United haven't been the most
clinical, ruthless side in front
of goal this season but Zlatan Ibrahimovic was back on
target against Leicester last weekend and he is a price
of 4/7 in the anytime goalscorer market for the game, with other options like Marcus Rashford, Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial around the even money mark.
Nestlé has set up a network
of Nutrition Representatives who
target health workers and is currently recruiting a «
Clinical Network Representative» with the following responsibilities:
Nestlé employs
Clinical Representatives with the stated responsibility
of targeting health workers to achieve brand endorsements for its formula brand.
[204] These methods are intended to reduce practices detrimental to breastfeeding such as early mixed feeding, use
of pacifiers, and separation
of mother and child in the
clinical setting.The BFHI has especially
targeted hospitals and birthing centers in the developing world, as these facilities are most at risk to the detrimental effects
of reduced breastfeeding rates.
Nestlé has recruited a network
of clinical representatives to
target health workers, with the stated purpose
of securing endorsements for the brand.
publish the mandatory collection
of data on surgical site infections in this financial year, and introduce a
target to reduce these, with year on year reductions in each
clinical setting
Let me point to 10 things that I sketched out this morning: too much money spent on administration and bureaucracy and not enough on front - line patient care; too little patient - centric information to inform decision making; too little innovation; too little
clinical input into decision making; too much inertia and hostility to reform, as we have seen today; too much process - driven
target culture distorting
clinical decision making; falling productivity; poor outcomes across a range
of clinical indicators; too often, weak commissioning
of servicing; and widening health inequalities in the past 10 years, in addition to the scandals that occurred in Staffordshire and Kent.
Drugs that impact DNA methylation are increasingly a
target for drug development; in fact, several
of these therapies are already in
clinical use for certain cancers.
There are hormonal drugs in
clinical trials that
target the production
of sperm, but these affect the natural hormones in men much like female contraceptives affect hormones in women.
The work demonstrates that even with the
clinical successes
of blocking PD - 1, there may be a better, more refined therapeutic strategy to
target the PD - 1 pathway.
«Stahgahdt's» — as he says it — is one
of the two types
of degenerative blindness his company is
targeting in its
clinical trials.
Happily, according to the researchers» report in the Journal
of Allergy and
Clinical Immunology, they were able not only to describe the new mutation, but also to successfully treat the patient with
targeted therapy.
Target Temperature Management 33 °C versus 36 °C after Out -
of - hospital Cardiac Arrest, a Randomized, Parallel Group, Assessor Blinded
Clinical Trial.
«Several major advances in recent years have been good news for multiple myeloma patients, but those new drugs only
target terminally differentiated cancer cells and thus can only reduce the bulk
of the tumor,» said Jamieson, who is also deputy director
of the Sanford Stem Cell
Clinical Center, director
of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director
of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.
Scientists are seeking the Food and Drug Administration's blessing for an unprecedented
clinical trial — the first test
of a drug to specifically
target the process
of human aging.
«However, the immense complexity
of tumors and their genomic aberrations will require sophisticated computer technologies for optimal interpretation, and patients need access to more
clinical trials and to
targeted drugs.»
OMP - 54F28 (FZD8 - Fc) and a sister compound also developed by OncoMed, vantictumab (OMP - 18R5), are two
of the first therapeutic agents
targeting this key pathway to enter
clinical testing.
«From a
clinical standpoint, our findings suggest that CRP could be used to risk stratify patients before surgery, enabling proactive interventions that
target patients at risk for developing postoperative delirium,» said Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, PhD, co-lead author and postdoctoral fellow in the Division
of General Medicine at Primary Care at BIDMC and HMS.
«These new kinds
of biomarkers will lead to new kinds
of clinical trials with
targeted chemotherapy.
Dr. Siddiqui says randomized
clinical trials will be needed to determine the impact
of targeted biopsy on
clinical outcomes.
Whereas some
of the other types
of visual prostheses propose stimulating different areas
of the brain from the one Pezaris is
targeting, another promising project known as the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is expanding its U.S.
clinical trial into Europe.
«There are certainly challenges to overcome for
clinical application
of this kind
of immunotherapy, but the newly published data are an important milestone in immunotherapy
targeting solid tumors that have eluded other treatments.»
«These are optimistic results for one
of the first
targeted therapies for cancer stem cells,» says Antonio Jimeno, MD, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center, director
of the university's Cancer Stem Cell - Directed
Clinical Trials Program, and principal investigator of the clinical trial at the CU Cancer Cent
Clinical Trials Program, and principal investigator
of the
clinical trial at the CU Cancer Cent
clinical trial at the CU Cancer Center site.
Clinical trials for
targeted therapies, selected on the basis
of the genomic tests, are scheduled to begin in early 2007.
She says a number
of experimental drugs now in
clinical trials are designed to
target serotonin in other ways in the brain, and may have better success than the SSRIs.
«The results
of the phase III
clinical trial show that a
target fusion biopsy detects more clinically significant prostate cancer,» said Art Rastinehad, DO, principal investigator
of the study and director
of interventonal urologic oncology at North Shore - LIJ's Arthur Smith Institute for Urology, in New Hyde Park, NY.
Given the limitations
of the PSA blood test and the standard 12 - core ultrasound biopsies for detecting prostate cancer, researchers evaluated the initial 105 men eligible for the
clinical trial using a new
targeted prostate fusion biopsy method.
In anticipation
of targeted medicines, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are increasingly performing genetic studies
of clinical trial participants in hopes
of identifying genetic profiles that predict therapeutic outcomes.
Italy's National Institute
of Health in Rome recently completed a phase II
clinical trial
of an experimental vaccine that
targets the Tat protein.
All groups
of both species showed improvement over the course
of 10 to 12 trials, but the healthy participants consistently reached the
target with a more economic route, the team reports on today in the Journal
of Clinical Investigation.
The discovery could explain the repeated — and costly — failure over the last 20 years
of clinical trials
of potential pain - killing drugs that
targeted the substance, known as «Substance P».
«Sequencing the human genome, device miniaturization, and the advent
of combination devices have shifted the focus from engineering to the life sciences in the device industry,» adds Jules Mitchel, president
of Target Health Inc. in New York City, a company that conducts
clinical trials for MD&D companies.
Until recently, even the
targets of drugs already in
clinical trials weren't publicized.
As a whole, the findings suggest the proteins act on the gut — brain axis — the collection
of two - way nerve and chemical pathways that communicate between the digestive tract and the brain — and that GDF15 might be a
clinical target for metabolic disorders.
Although most
of the shortages affect old, generic drugs,
clinical trials often use these staples, either as controls or in combination with experimental medicines, including the genetically
targeted drugs that many hope will revolutionize cancer care.
These results not only show promise on a new
targeted therapy to treat this malignancy, as PI3K inhibitors are already used in the
clinical practice, but also unravel a new function
of the PI3K kinase in cancer biology through its role in promoting metastasis.
Initial results were discouraging: attempts to simply replace the protein therapies with small - molecule drugs that hit the same
targets largely failed, says Saeed Fatenejad, a rheumatologist at Pfizer who is responsible for
clinical development
of tasocitinib.
«Since epalrestat is already on the market and has no major adverse side effects, our study provides a proof
of principle that it could become a valuable
targeted drug for the
clinical treatment
of basal - like breast cancer,» Dong says.