Sentences with phrase «national clinical trial of»

UT Southwestern was one of 16 medical centers across the country — and the only one in Texas — participating in a national clinical trial of the technology, which was aimed at significantly expanding the number of donor lungs available for transplantation.

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To achieve this goal, several approaches are envisaged: identifying small populations with severe disease where a medicine's benefit - risk balance could be favorable; making more use of real - world data where appropriate to support clinical trial data; and involving health technology assessment bodies early in development to increase the chance that medicines will be recommended for payment and ultimately covered by national healthcare systems.

In fact, The National Eye Institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health is running a 4,000 - plus - subject clinical trial to investigate what supplementation with FloraGLO Lutein, zeaxanthin and / or omega - 3 fatty acids can do to improve eye health and functioning.

Science and Technology — Subject: Clinical trials Witness (es): Professor Karol Sikora, Medical Director of Cancer Partners UK and Dean, University of Buckingham Medical School and Simon Denegri, NIHR National Director for Public Participation and Engagement in Research and Chair, INVOLVE; Tracey Brown, Managing Director, Sense About Science and Dr Helen Jamison, Deputy Director, Science Media Centre; Sir Kent Woods, Chief Executive,, Dr Janet Wisely, Chief Executive, Health Research Authority, Bill Davidson, Acting Deputy Director and Head of Research Standards and Support, Department of Health and Peter Knight, Deputy Director, Head of Research Information and Intelligence, Department of Health Location: Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Another example, he said, is the National Cancer Institute's drug formulary launched in 2017 that helps researchers quickly access commercial cancer drugs under development, to test promising drug combinations in clinical trials, an effort made possible after difficult issues of intellectual property, access and licensing were worked out.

In science news around the world, eastern Asia is experiencing an unprecedented urbanization boom, the European Commission announces a plan to create a unified energy market for the European Union, an external review of the University of Minnesota's clinical trials procedures says the university didn't adequately protect its most vulnerable subjects, a new data repository of the world's oldest fossils is launched, and the Argonne National Laboratory's 24 - year - old Ask A Scientist service closes its virtual doors.

From 1996 to 2001, he was Director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where he emphasized investment in neuroscience and emerging genetic technologies, and initiated a series of large practical clinical trials to inform practice.

A larger placebo - controlled clinical trial, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), is now underway.

One option is the «inconvenience unit,» the National Institutes of Health's way of calculating how much recompense a clinical trial subject should get.

Researchers at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have developed a new radiotracer to diagnose prostate cancer and conducted a successful Phase I clinical trial.

These are the conclusions of the Phase I Clinical Trial, sponsored by the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and carried out by CNIO ́s Breast Cancer Clinical Research Unit.

In science news around the world, the National Institutes of Health expands the definition of clinical trials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture restores previously public animal welfare records, seismologists fear the loss of a key research vessel, Brazil's indigenous tribes win land rights, and China's — and the world's — largest radio telescope gets a no - fly zone.

In it, critical care specialist Charles Natanson of the Clinical Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, argued that blood substitutes, no matter how they're designed, raise the risk of death by almost 30 % and nearly triple the rate of heart attacks in the people who receive them in clinical trials, mainly surgery and trauma pClinical Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, argued that blood substitutes, no matter how they're designed, raise the risk of death by almost 30 % and nearly triple the rate of heart attacks in the people who receive them in clinical trials, mainly surgery and trauma pclinical trials, mainly surgery and trauma patients.

Since 2006, the number of industry - sponsored clinical trials studying the benefits and harms of medical treatments has risen dramatically, while the number of clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has fallen substantially, according to new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research.

Schlom, of the National Cancer Institute, says the next challenge for researchers is to find ways to combine different immunotherapy drugs into single treatments and measure their efficacy in clinical trials.

Italy's National Institute of Health in Rome recently completed a phase II clinical trial of an experimental vaccine that targets the Tat protein.

The company has already garnered a fair amount of attention and is funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, to conduct a phase II clinical trial in people with pain conditions such as neuralgia, fibromyalgia or migraines.

Even as he leads a national clinical trial testing a combination of paclitaxel chemotherapy with an experimental agent known as efatutazone, Dr. Smallridge is working with Dr. Copland and researcher Laura Marlow to find an HDAC inhibitor that might offer additional benefit.

And this week clinical trials for a potential Ebola vaccine will be starting at the National Institutes of Health.

«Most patients simply do not know about clinical trials that could help them,» observes Robert Comis, president of theCoalition of National Cancer Cooperative Groups, which conducts clinical trials for the National Cancer Institute.

An experimental vaccine to prevent the mosquito - borne viral illness chikungunya elicited neutralizing antibodies in all 25 adult volunteers who participated in a recent early - stage clinical trial conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

In the end, such low clinical trial enrollment — only 3 to 5 percent of all cancer patients — slows the development of new treatments, says Ellen Stovall of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship.

Clinical trials that charge enrollees to participate are ostensibly aimed at giving patients early access to promising therapies — often in the fields of stem cells or aging reversal — that are too unusual or have too little profit potential to get funding from traditional sources such as companies, foundations, or the National Institutes of Health.

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In the Phase II clinical trial, Dr. Miller and colleagues in the National Cancer Institute - supported Gynecologic Oncology Group found that in patients who had not received prior chemotherapy, the combination cocktail had a 31 percent response rate for up to 7 months, and an overall survival of 12 months.

The proposed clinical trial, in which researchers would use CRISPR to engineer immune cells to fight cancer, won approval from the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a panel that has traditionally vetted the safety and ethics of gene therapy trials funded by the U.S. government and others.

Aggressive treatment of high blood pressure comes with risks, and the study, a large clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, has not yet been peer - reviewed or published.

Anna Barker, deputy director of the National Cancer Institute, said a systemic reform of the clinical trial system is «long overdue.»

The Phase 3 trial was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), both part of the National Institutes of Health, and was conducted by the NIH - sponsored Clinical Islet Transplantation (CIT) Consortium.

Some people enrolled in clinical trials with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) are continuing the use of experimental drugs despite the possibility the compounds have fungal contaminations.

The controversy came to a head in March when the National Institutes of Health issued a notice of a competition soliciting participation in a large - scale clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of fetal surgery as a treatment for spina bifida.

According to Jerry Sheehan, assistant director for policy development at the National Library of Medicine, the 2007 law is full of ambiguities about which clinical trials had to register with the site and what kinds of results they had to report.

The spat involves a June 2001 paper in The American Journal of Psychiatry on a small clinical trial of the antidepressant Paxil that was funded by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the National Institute of Mental Health.

While some research suggests that a diet high in omega - 3 fatty acids can protect brain health, a large clinical trial by researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that omega - 3 supplements did not slow cognitive decline in older persons.

The key change is the creation of a new health research regulatory agency, known as the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), to streamline regulation and improve the cost effectiveness of clinical trials.

A clinical trial in which volunteers were infected with dengue virus six months after receiving either an experimental dengue vaccine developed by scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or a placebo injection yielded starkly contrasting results.

Hillis» preliminary study of six patients continued to show language improvement two weeks and two months later, and a clinical trial funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health is now underway.

In 2014, a multi-center clinical trial sponsored by the National Eye Institute showed telemedicine is effective and the approach could potentially give millions of premature babies worldwide greater access to ROP screening.

A 38 - center clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has shown that far more people than previously thought can benefit from an emergency procedure for acute ischemic stroke.

After persistent pressure and a threat of legal action from an eminent critic of genetic engineering, the US National Institutes of Health has agreed to suspend the enrolment of children in two clinical trials of synthetic human growth hormone.

A multi-institutional team of hearing and communication experts led by the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) is breaking sound barriers for children born without a hearing nerve in a clinical trial backed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The pharmaceutical industry, the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, academia, clinical research organizations and other key stakeholders will have the opportunity to focus on these disparities and identify the barriers and challenges in educating, recruiting and designing clinical trials.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, has confirmed that the agency's definition of clinical trials now includes imaging studies of normal brain function that do not test new treatments.

Measure blocks changes to National Institutes of Health clinical trials policy and overhead payments, drops fetal tissue limits

Angélica Nogueira - Rodrigues, MD, PhD, of the Brazilian National Cancer Insitute, and her colleagues designed a phase 2 clinical trial to test the potential of the EFGR inhibitor erlotinib combined with chemoradiation therapy in 36 women with cervical cancer.

This study was presented at the Featured Clinical Research Session I: Two - year Outcomes of Surgical Treatment of Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation: A Randomized Clinical Trial from The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network The Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation trial was supported by a cooperative agreement (U01 HL088942) funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, and the Canadian Institutes of Health ReseTrial from The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network The Moderate Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation trial was supported by a cooperative agreement (U01 HL088942) funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Resetrial was supported by a cooperative agreement (U01 HL088942) funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Watterson and his collaborators have a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) award to further refine the compound so it is metabolically stable and safe for use in humans and develop it to the point of starting a phase 1 clinical trial.

Several human clinical trials began last fall at test sites including BIDMC, WRAIR, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases affiliated clinical trial sites.

The US Food and Drug Administration should consider approving the French «abortion pill» mifepristone (RU486) on the basis of European data, rather than waiting for clinical trials in the US, according to a panel of experts convened by the US National Academy of Sciences.

More than 90 % of all new medical devices are not tested in clinical trials at all, according to Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Center for Health Research.