Sentences with phrase «by efficacy studies»

These recommendations misrepresent science, are grounded in hypothesis rather than sound theory, are supported by no efficacy studies, fly in the face of established biological, anthropological, psychological, and sociological knowledge, and ignore or distort established research and other evidence that points the other way.

This result implies that only large treatment effects can be detected by efficacy studies in hAPP mice, since the number of mice per group will likely not be greater than 50, for practical and ethical reasons.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Other studies, meanwhile, are examining tryp's potential efficacy as an antifungal agent; and as a prognostic indicator in patients with brain cancer (as seen by increased uptake of the amino acid on a PET scan).

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Presentations will highlight the short and long - term effects of Ingrezza on tardive dyskinesia symptoms by body region, long term safety and efficacy data from the KINECT 4 phase 3 open label study and also from RE-KINECT (real - world screening study of patients with possible TD).

Given the impossibility of conceiving of the emergence of higher - level physical individuals, the materialist version of physicalism interprets this principle to mean that all causal efficacy must be exerted by the level of physical entities studied by physics.

Most of the homemade remedies are supported by a study providing evidence in favor of their efficacy, but we can not guarantee that a certain recipe would help you in treating any other similar health condition.

A recent analysis of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) found that, in fathers, a higher parenting self - efficacy score was related to lower work - family strain; and a key mechanism by which fathers» work / family strain was decreased was by their doing more than they regarded as their «fair share» of child rearing tasks.

For the same reason, it is not easy to prove treatment efficacy by means of controlled, randomized studies, the «gold standard» for evaluating new therapies.

Several of these syntheses included measures of self - efficacy beliefs, where the investigators examined the extent to which the relationship between helpgiving practices and the study outcomes were mediated by belief appraisals.22, 5

BY NATHAN RILEY Outraged that Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to sit on a city health department study into the efficacy of establishing safe places for drug users to pursue their high — facilities that are in place all over Europe with proven track records of reducing fatal overdoses — protestors sat down in the middle of Broadway across from City Hall bringing downtown traffic to a halt.

And scientists who conduct human challenge studies, which typically involve a few dozen participants, say they have critical benefits: In addition to saving time and money, they can reveal harm caused by a potential drug or vaccine before it enters large - scale human efficacy trials.

It was selected for the next stage of the study where its efficacy in decontaminating food and kitchenware contaminated by bacteria was investigated.

The determination of each efficacy level was also based on the rigor and quantity of published studies on the drug class: to be in Level A, for example, a class of drugs must have been supported by at least two «Class I» studies — well - designed, double - blind, randomized, placebo - controlled clinical trials.

Three studies presented at the American Epilepsy Society's 69th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia highlight emerging efficacy and safety data of Epidiolex, a pharmaceutical liquid formulation of cannabidiol, which is currently undergoing U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Phase 3 pivotal clinical trials in the United States and across the globe by GW Pharmaceuticals.

Furthermore, the report accuses the British Homeopathic Association (BHA), which had submitted evidence to the panel, of cherry - picking, and even, in one case actively misrepresenting, research into the treatment (a famous study that concluded its findings were «compatible with the notion that the clinical effects of homeopathy are placebo effects» was cited by the BHA as evidence of the treatment's efficacy.)

The multicenter study, led by Scripps Clinic orthopedic surgeon Clifford Colwell, MD evaluated the efficacy of a mobile compression device that is small and portable enough for patients to use at home for 10 days or longer after joint replacement surgery.

Scientists studied the efficacy of home visits to AIDS patients in rural areas that aren't served by clinics.

A new study led by Boston Children's Hospital and the University of Montreal raises a note of caution, finding that person - to - person genetic differences may undercut the efficacy of the gene editing process or, in more rare cases, cause a potentially dangerous «off target» effect.

The study, «Anti-TNF drives regulatory T cell expansion by paradoxically promoting membrane TNF - TNF - RII binding in rheumatoid arthritis,» which will be published online June 6 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, may help explain the divergent efficacies of different TNF - targeting drugs.

A new study led by University of Kentucky researchers suggests a new approach to develop highly - potent drugs which could overcome current shortcomings of low drug efficacy and multi-drug resistance in the treatment of cancer as well as viral and bacterial infections.

Led by Bavari and Travis Warren, Ph.D., the USAMRIID team performed a series of studies involving a lethal challenge with Marburg virus in nonhuman primates to determine the efficacious dose and regimen of AVI - 7288, as well as to characterize the drug exposures in animals that produced efficacy.

Guided by findings from human and monkey studies, researchers are working to improve upon the efficacy of the RV144 vaccine regimen.

Studies show that the efficacy of some vaccines and cancer treatments may be affected by the time of day when a therapy is administered or medicine is taken.

Instead of exploring proteins one at a time, the study shows the efficacy of looking at them by the hundreds, Pagliarini adds.

Schools in which teachers showed high levels of collective efficacy had a 50 percent reduction in the academic disadvantage experienced by black students, compared to schools where teachers had average levels, the study showed.

In a study published online by JAMA Cardiology, Fredrik Björck, M.D., of Umea University, Umea, Sweden and colleagues evaluated the efficacy and safety of well - managed warfarin therapy in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.

In a few weeks, meeting participants learned, enough data may be available from small phase I trials of a vaccine jointly made by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) that began in September to launch efficacy studies.

«The need for improving nursing home staff palliative care knowledge and practice is generally agreed upon, and the efficacy of such improvement is supported by our study findings,» the authors wrote.

«Future research will focus on optimizing the candidate therapies discovered by our team in this study as well as developing biomarkers that can be used to test the efficacy of other potentially promising drugs,» says Dr. Rothstein

The GP practices were involved in ensuring the study not only had access to specific COPD patients but also that the usual clinical care provided by the practices was built into the trials — the study was therefore rooted in a real clinical environment unlike tradition efficacy trial model.

A brain plaque inhibitor developed by Merck is now being tested in larger studies for efficacy against the still unstoppable neurodegenerative disease

In the study, the researchers tested the efficacy of the vaccine for the bacterial pathogen Piscirickettsia salmonis by comparing the reaction of vaccinated and non-vaccinated Atlantic salmon when exposed to the sea louse Caligus rogercresseyi in the lab.

A Houston Methodist team led by Mauro Ferrari, PhD and Jenny Chang, MD has received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to complete preclinical efficacy studies and a future clinical trial testing a breast cancer precision drug.

While we can not predict the outcome of any future safety or efficacy studies, this decision by FDA allowing clinical research to begin represents a major milestone in allowing us to hopefully provide answers to those critical questions in the future,» Conn said.

The correlate study conducted by the US Military along with Duke University has found clues that will enable scientists to improve the current vaccine's efficacy level.

Researchers from the group of Gary L. Dunbar at Central Michigan University, Michigan, USA have recently shown the ability of adenovirally generated rat iPSCs to survive and differentiate in the striatum of rats [6], and now in a study in Stem Cells Translational Medicine, they focus on the efficacy of transplantation of these cells into the 3 - nitropropionic acid (3 - NP) rat model of HD [7], which induces cell death by energy - depleting mechanisms providing an accurate model of cell loss and replicates many features of the disease [8].

The first clinical trial was a safety study in Australia, followed by an ongoing efficacy study in Peru to evaluate the ability to treat patients with malaria.

In addition, the knowledge must be imparted to scientists studying the efficacy of drugs on a variety of diseases that may be affected by compounds in soy.

The phase II part of a phase Ib / II study (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02263508; MASTERKEY - 265)[24] assessing the safety and efficacy of T - VEC in combination with the PD - 1 — blocking antibody pembrolizumab in previously untreated, unresected stage IIIB / IV melanoma is evaluating confirmed ORR by irRECIST at week 24.

The results obtained by this service may be part of the documentation provided to other analytical services (TNA3), Adjuvants and delivery systems (TNA2) or Immunogenicity and efficacy studies (TNA8) as well as the Pre-clinical GLP production services (TNA4) and the GMP production services (TNA5).

Once recombinant vaccine antigens produced by this service are available, they could be forwarded to Analytical services (TNA3), Adjuvants and delivery systems (TNA2) or Immunogenicity and efficacy studies (TNA8), if applicable.

His studies, ranging from molecular experiments to clinical trials, have generated comprehensive evidence for the efficacy of omega - 3 in preventing cardiac sudden death and established the mechanism by which omega - 3 fatty acids can reduce cardiac arrhythmia by interacting with membrane ion channels and stabilizing the electrical activity of heart cells.

The approval process involves several steps including preclinical laboratory and animal studies, clinical trials for safety and efficacy, filing of a New Drug Application by the manufacturer of the drug, and FDA review and approval of the application.

Being able to measure the navigational impairment caused by Alzheimer's disease in both species gives us the potential to directly compare results across species, including studies of drug efficacy.

«The safety and efficacy profile of acetaminophen is supported by more than 150 studies over the past 50 years,» the company added.

In the longer of the studies, IER (two ~ 75 % ER days per week) demonstrated equal efficacy to CER (25 % ER / day) at reducing body - weight, adiposity and CRP after 6 months, whereas a post-treatment increase in adiponectin occurred only in the IER group.41 In follow - up work by the same group 48, subjects were assigned a similar two - day IER protocol with the addition of a 5 % weight - loss after three months, whereas body - fat losses in the IER group were significantly greater.

Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions

We know that the lemony aura of limonene is more than just a scent, as it can be found in our blood after exposure.8 Furthermore, several anticancer cellular pathways appear to be affected by the terpene limonene, leading some to suggest it has anticancer, or chemopreventative, benefits.9 While feeding it to rats in studies has revealed some efficacy against breast tumors, 10 we have a ways to go before we can make such bold claims in humans.