Sentences with phrase «clinical failures»

The huge numbers involved in the overall work of the NHS — 15.8 million admissions to hospitals and 19.2 million A&E attendances in England the year to November 2014 — put those figures in context, but PASC says that the overwhelming response received to its inquiry is an indication of the devastating impact of clinical failures when things do go wrong.

A Cancer Vaccine's Mystery Deaths Proponents of cancer vaccines note that past clinical failures nonetheless have shown that the vaccines lengthened patients» survival times.

Going after tumor - regenerating stem cells is nothing new, though, and even established firms working in this space — those founded by leading cancer biologists — have suffered recent clinical failures.

So now, with late - stage clinical failures piling up, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set off down a path to adapt those standards as researchers are pushed inexorably into earlier and earlier forms of the disease, ahead of the brain damage inflicted by Alzheimer's.

Clinical failures first surfaced along the Thailand - Cambodia border, in Colombia's Magdalena Valley, and in the nearby Lake Maracaibo district of southwestern Venezuela.

About five years ago a pair of scientists at the Gladstone Institutes — Robert Mahley and Yadong Huang — had seen enough clinical failures in Alzheimer's drug research to urge a change in strategy.

As a result, it could help revive the gene therapy field, whose early clinical failures — including patient deaths — led some to dismiss it as overhyped.

Readmission rates of adult patients to the same hospital within 30 days are an area of national focus and a potential indicator of clinical failure and unnecessary expenditures.

Pharmaceutical companies and academic researchers racing to develop anti — β amyloid drugs fervently hope that a fundamental misunderstanding of Alzheimer's disease is not at the root of past clinical failures.

«In 2005, he was the regional NHS official who had the oversight of Mid-Staffs when the clinical failures were taking place,» Unite national officer for health Rachael Maskell said.

A drug that only benefits 15 % of participants might seem like a clinical failure — but if those respondents share a genetic profile, the drug might be admitted to the market with an accompanying genetic test.