Even once a drug makes it to late - phase clinical trials, patients must be followed for several years, or even a decade or more, to determine whether the new treatment is more
effective than current treatments.
Not exact matches
Dr Jones, said: «This new meta - analysis shows that baclofen is no more
effective than placebo on a range of key outcome measures, suggesting that the
current increasing use of baclofen as a
treatment for alcohol use disorders is premature.»
The conclusion: Ginkgo biloba «appears to be a safe and
effective alternative to the
current therapeutic alternatives for the
treatment of dementia» and has fewer side effects
than Tacrine, a popular prescription medicine for the condition.
An innovative new study takes a network theory approach to targeted
treatment in rural Africa, and finds that a simple algorithm may be more
effective than current policies, as well as easier to deploy, when it comes to preventing disease spread — by finding those with «most connections to sick people».
These trials are used to determine whether a
treatment is more
effective and / or better tolerated
than current treatments and should be used more broadly.
Those early results are very positive, and strongly indicate that the nanoparticles could be useful for assessing how
effective a therapy is on a much shorter time scale
than current treatments, which usually rely on observing the size of the tumor.
Rest assure that clinical studies are only made available after initial studies have determined that the
treatment is safe and has potential to be more
effective than current mechanisms of
treatment.
The care co-ordination aspect of the intervention was based on
current National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance.17 18 BA is a simple psychological
treatment for depression that aims to re-engage patients with positively reinforcing experiences and reduce avoidance behaviours.19 It is no less clinically
effective but more cost
effective than cognitive behavioural therapy in treating depression in adults.20