The FDA authorized marketing the Brain Trauma Indicator after examining
data from a clinical study of nearly 2,000 blood samples from patients with suspected concussions.
«We know
from clinical studies of behavior and the environment that when children are chronically exposed to stressors, they are at a higher risk of developing bipolar disorder.
We
know from clinical studies that young women who are involved in regular and vigorous aerobic exercise programs begin puberty later and have nearly a two-fold decreased risk of developing breast cancer later in life.
And data
from clinical studies already get out before they're published, for instance in press releases and at medical meetings, Krumholz said; why not make the full results public?
These findings may correlate with disrupted brain development, but direct evidence for a link between Zika virus and microcephaly is more likely to
come from clinical studies, the researchers say.
This area of translational research — where laboratory findings move into clinical testing, and where
questions from clinical studies are brought back into the lab — is critical to bringing new and better immunotherapies to patients.
Evidence
from clinical studies so far, including evidence from the well - known Ornish clinical trials, tells us that vegetarian diets can reduce risk factors for heart disease and improve the health of the heart — however, the diets tested were not only meatless, they were also very low in fat and very low in refined carbohydrates.
While doctors have traditionally said caffeine also causes atrial fibrillation, recent evidence
from clinical studies shows that, in most people, it does not.
First, we used the primary outcome
measure from the clinical study, the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI - 2)-- a 28 - item self - report questionnaire that assesses the severity of current / recent depressive symptoms in young people aged 7 — 17 over the preceding 2 weeks.22 Questions on the CDI - 2 have three possible responses: 0, corresponding to no symptoms; 1, corresponding to probably or mild symptoms; and 2, corresponding to definite or marked symptoms.
All
findings from these clinical studies are integrated throughout the 20 - member lab group so everyone can share the same methods and concepts — a productive learning method he acquired from Dr. Cohn.
«
Evidence from clinical studies... often fails to predict the clinical utility of drugs,» health researchers Huseyin Naci and John Ioannidis write in the current issue of Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Results
from the clinical study, led by Shah and Shpall, were presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual conference in Orlando, Fla..