Sentences with phrase «research trials show»

Clinical Research Trials show significant benefits with tapping that improve over time (compared to high weight regain rates for diets).

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A stroke drug invented at The Scripps Research Institute has shown signs of safety and efficacy in a mid-stage clinical trial.

In a March 16 research note, Andrew Fein, an analyst at H.C. Wainwright & Co., reported that OvaScience (OVAS: NASDAQ) shifted its focus back to research and development, after interim data from the first 20 patients in its Phase 1 trial of OvaPrime showed no signs of efficacy despite indicating safety and tolerability.

But it is important to note that the Tufts study wasn't a safety trial, because existing research was already available that showed that beta - carotene in Golden Rice was as safe as beta - carotene in other foods.

While this is not really a surprise, since similar research and trials with wounds on people has shown the healing benefits of using medical grade manuka honey, this is the first time a clinical trial has been done on horses.

Research studies in Europe and the United States of America (on farm and pilot trials) on the effects of farming systems on beneficial invertebrates and birds consistently shows a better performance of the organic system.

Many research trials have shown that BCAA's improve red blood cell count, hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum albumin, fasting glucose levels, increased glycogenesis and rapid improvement in muscular inflammation (2, 3, 4).

Research evidence from three randomised - control trials in the USA show positive effects from pregnancy through to the time children were 15 years old.

Research shows that families typically receive roughly half of the number of home visits expected.16, 17 For example, across three randomized controlled trials conducted of Nurse Family Partnership, average dosage of visits ranged from 45 to 62 percent.18 Research also shows that many, perhaps most, families enrolled in home visiting programs drop out before their eligibility ends.16, 19,20 Some home visiting studies have varied the dosage that families were offered and found that fewer home visits produced outcomes similar to higher levels of exposure.21

Recent research of home birth data has shown a higher risk in home VBAC for mothers who have never had a prior vaginal birth, yet access to trial of labor in level 1 and level 2 hospitals is lacking.

The protective effects of breast feeding have been shown to be dose responsive16 17 18 and minimal breast feeding may not be protective.17 Researchers in lactation have advocated that research on promotion of breast feeding must target exclusive breast feeding, 19 and ours is one of the larger randomised controlled trials with this primary outcome.

The review of three trials, involving 233 women, found there has not been enough research done to show the effects of castor oil on ripening the cervix or inducing labour or compare it to other methods of induction.

While the reform alliance provided data showing trial lawyers» campaign contributions were tops among influence blocs, the New York Public Interest Research Group put teacher unions far in the lead in combined lobbying and campaign donations.

The ongoing trials could have major consequences even without yielding a cure: research has shown that an intervention that could delay the onset of Alzheimer's by just 2 years would result, 50 years later, in nearly 2 million fewer cases of the disease in the United States than projected otherwise.

A clinical trial conducted by researchers at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials, a partnership between Scottsdale Healthcare and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), showed that a new drug called MM - 398, given in combination with 5 - flourouracil (5FU) and leucovorin, produced a significant overall survival rate in patients with advanced, previously - treated pancreatic cancer.

Previous research raised the possibility that HDL might not be quite as protective against heart disease as generally believed by cardiologists, especially after several clinical trials of HDL - raising drugs showed little or no effect.

The team's samples of 2672 papers, published between 1992 and 2011, showed that all four of these measures have yet to be adopted widely in animal research, though they are now standard practice in clinical trials.

«Our study shows the significant impact of adding carotid plaque measurement using vascular ultrasound and coronary calcium scoring with CT scan to our conventional assessment for cardiovascular disease,» says Roxana Mehran, MD, the study's co-lead author and Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at the Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai Heart at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

«Our review of the literature showed several positive trial results, but we also found important research limitations in the studies, indicating a need for higher quality, more definitive trials on antidepressant use for postsurgical pain.»

The probes targeted to breast cancer have shown great promise so far in breast cancer clinical trials, and Mankoff and his Penn Medicine colleagues have helped lead this research effort.

The case shows that even when carried out at mainstream hospitals, experimental stem cell therapies can have unpredictable consequences, says Alexey Bersenev, a stem cell research analyst who blogs at Cell Trials.

An affordable hepatitis C combination treatment including the new drug candidate ravidasvir has been shown to be safe and effective, with extremely high cure rates for patients, including hard - to - treat cases, according to interim results from the Phase II / III STORM - C - 1 trial presented by the non-profit research and development organisation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) at the International Liver Conference in Paris.

However, what our trial has shown is that although this is still the case, the proportion of women who will actually have a recurrence without radiotherapy is very small (less than 5 percent), five years after treatment,» said Ian Kunkler, F.R.C.R., professor of clinical oncology at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Center in the University of Edinburgh.

The authors point to studies of harmful and beneficial effects of thrombolytic and antiarrhythmic drugs for myocardial infarction, for example: «Not only would systematic reviews... have reduced waste resulting from unjustified research, they would also have shown how to reduce morbidity and sometimes mortality, both in patients allocated to relatively less effective or actually harmful treatments in unnecessary trials, and in patients generally,» the authors write.

Commenting on the study, Dr Andres Poveda, Head of the Gynecological Oncology Clinic at Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Oncología, Valencia, Spain, who was not involved in the research, said the CIRCCa study is the second recent trial to show the benefit of adding an antiangiogenic drug to chemotherapy in cervical cancer.

But the latest trial, led by geriatrics expert Richard Weindruch at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center and published in Science, is the first to show that caloric restriction can improve survival in primates.

«Taking a break from dieting may improve weight loss: Research showed in a randomized controlled trial, that taking a 2 - week break during dieting may improve weight loss.»

This clinical trial is the culmination of long - standing research led by Professor John Greenwood at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology showing the potential therapeutic benefits of using statins to treat autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and uveitis.

Reanalysis of the World Health Organization's Antenatal Care Trial (WHOACT) shows that there is an increased risk of fetal death at between 32 and 36 weeks for women who have a reduced antenatal care package, finds research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Reproductive Health.

Despite lowering low - density lipoprotein (LDL), known as «bad» cholesterol, while markedly increasing levels of high - density lipoprotein (HDL), or «good» cholesterol, a large clinical trial to investigate the cholesterol drug evacetrapib was discontinued early after a preliminary analysis showed it did not reduce rates of major adverse cardiovascular events, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

A large randomized controlled trial of ischemic postconditioning in patients who had experienced the deadliest form of heart attack — ST - segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)-- failed to show that this procedure significantly reduces death from any cause or hospitalization for heart failure, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

This research is part of the Pulmonary Nodule Plasma Proteomic Classifier (PANOPTIC) study, a clinical trial of 685 patients 40 years old or older, with newly discovered lung nodules 8 to 30 millimeters in diameter as shown on a recent (fewer than 60 days old) CT scan.

«Epilepsy drug discovered in fish model shows promise in small pediatric clinical trial: Research suggests zebrafish models may be efficient resource for identifying drugs for clinical use.»

Nelson Michael of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, which helped run the trial, is more optimistic: «We've shown that this 26 - year global effort has not been in vain.»

«The current trial showed an absolute survival benefit of almost 10 percentage points, eclipsing any effect of drug intervention,» wrote Dr. Joglar, who holds the Elizabeth Thaxton and Ellis Batten Page Professorship in Cardiac Electrophysiology Research.

The research spanned 10 years and its efficacy was shown in mice and in 20 type 1 diabetes patients who took part in a clinical trial at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

On average (top), a research participant might seem to produce a sustained, elevated rhythm of beta, but a look trial by trial (lower rows) shows that beta emerges in discrete bursts.

Research, early stage testing, and clinical trials are showing extremely positive results for this new kind of medicine.

The trials would be for proof of concept, to show whether researchers can, for the first time in humans, stimulate the right B cells to start the process of making broadly neutralizing antibodies, long considered the «holy grail» of HIV vaccine research because they defend against infection by a broad spectrum of HIV strains.

«This finding is consistent with a hypothesis generated out of the follow - up studies to the RV144 HIV vaccine trial in Thailand that showed the first efficacy in humans,» noted COL Nelson Michael, Director of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

Currently the research team is conducting a randomized, double - blind placebo - controlled trial of this system, which aims to show whether the closed loop system can prevent hypoglycemia.

In addition to researching advancements to improve heart function, MSI - 1346 has already shown positive results in clinical trial patients with obesity and type - 2 diabetes.

Glenda Gray, executive director of the Wits Health Consortium's perinatal HIV research unit in South Africa, presented data today at the HIV R4P conference in Cape Town indicating that the prime - boost vaccine candidates initially tested in the RV144 trial in Thailand — the only HIV vaccine trial to date to show any efficacy — induced cross-clade immune responses in a Phase I safety trial conducted in South Africa, with immunogenicity similar to or greater than that of the responses induced in Thai volunteers.

«There are no clinical research trials to say whether it works or not and in pregnancy you don't want to do any interventions that have not shown to be safe and effective,» Donnica Moore, MD, ob - gyn and president of Sapphire Women's Health Group in New Jersey, tells Health.

Reviews of clinical trials on hypnosis have concluded that the evidence of its effectiveness for smoking cessation is insufficient, but other research shows promise: The preliminary results from a small 2007 study of smokers hospitalized with cardiopulmonary diseases showed that the patients who chose to participate in a hypnotherapy session were more likely to be nonsmokers six months later than patients who chose nicotinereplacement therapy (NRT) alone.

Terry: Because I'm also a researcher and I write grants, get funding, do clinical trials, and every year, we have 2 research days, one for the Department of Medicine and one for the College of Medicine, where my lab presents our data, and so my colleagues have seen the progress with other progressive MS folks and the remarkable results that we are showing.

PS is the most researched, scientifically validated brain health nutrient, shown effective in numerous clinical trials to improve brain focus, memory and cognition, plus alleviating stress and improving mood.

Another trial in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications showed that it improves digestion.

Research on men in different occupations has shown how those occupations where their a real contest going on, or hard physical work, such as the military, trial lawyers, and construction workers experience higher testosterone levels than men in more sedate occupations.

(49, 50) In a review of six other clinical trials of patients with depression taking oral curcumin supplements for 4 to 6 weeks, research shows that curcumin helps reduce depressive symptoms and feelings of anxiety with no adverse effects.