Sentences with phrase «trial study conducted»

LAKEWOOD, N.J. — November 13, 2015 — The results of a randomized control trial study conducted by Magnolia Consulting, an independent evaluation consulting firm, has confirmed that Achieve3000's programs are extremely effective at improving students» literacy skills.

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Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward - looking statements due to these risks and uncertainties as well as other factors, which include, without limitation: the uncertain timing of, and risks relating to, the executive search process; risks related to the potential failure of eptinezumab to demonstrate safety and efficacy in clinical testing; Alder's ability to conduct clinical trials and studies of eptinezumab sufficient to achieve a positive completion; the availability of data at the expected times; the clinical, therapeutic and commercial value of eptinezumab; risks and uncertainties related to regulatory application, review and approval processes and Alder's compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements; risks and uncertainties relating to the manufacture of eptinezumab; Alder's ability to obtain and protect intellectual property rights, and operate without infringing on the intellectual property rights of others; the uncertain timing and level of expenses associated with Alder's development and commercialization activities; the sufficiency of Alder's capital and other resources; market competition; changes in economic and business conditions; and other factors discussed under the caption «Risk Factors» in Alder's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 26, 2018, and is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

Woo counters that Maastricht University in the Netherlands is currently conducting a clinical trial studying his company's supplements, which will publish at ClinicalTrials.gov.

In fact, one of Marathon's clinical trials that the FDA used as part of its decision - making process was conducted more than 20 years ago, saving the firm plenty of study costs.

Over the next four years, Rodale Institute will conduct a research project on Industrial Hemp through two field trials, a Variety Trial and Weed Suppression Trial, and one greenhouse study.

For the study, Bonuck and her team conducted two clinical trials, one among low - income women and one among more economically diverse women.

Current research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.

As it has been shown that conducting a randomised controlled trial is not possible, the best evidence about the safety of home birth can only come from good quality, routine registrations such as the one we used in our study.

Hendrix et al: Moving on to section II, labeled Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), I am once again wondering how RCTs can be ethically conducted to study birthplace.

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

Clinical trials are studies that are conducted to see how one can «outgrow» a food allergy.

The objective of the current study was to systematically review randomised controlled trials of parenting programmes for the treatment of children with conduct problems.

Eleven studies were in conducted in developing countries, including the two controlled trials in Honduras, and 12 were in developed countries

To be included in this critical review, studies had to be U.S. - based randomized trials evaluating a breastfeeding promotion intervention, reporting breastfeeding outcome data, enrolling primarily minority participants, and conducting analyses by intention to treat.

Such trials should be conducted in varied populations and settings and include longer periods of restricted exposure to pacifiers than have been examined thus far.13 Until such studies can be completed, it is important that breastfeeding support and education be incorporated into prenatal obstetric and early pediatric patient encounters.

We conducted our study in conjunction with the clinical trials and epidemiology research unit, which is an independent organisation funded by the National Medical Research Council.

Seven studies [4 conducted in adults (6, 10, 11, 18) and 3 conducted in children (15, 30, 33); 5261 subjects in total; 6 observational studies and 1 trial] reported on the association between infant feeding and fasting blood glucose in later life (Table 1 and Figure 3).

The 73 trials that contributed data to the analyses were conducted in 29 countries; 52 studies (62.1 % of participants) in high - income countries, 15 (30.1 % of participants) in upper - middle income countries, four (3.4 % of participants) in lower - middle income countries, and four (4.4 % of participants) in low - income countries.

A formative study using participatory action research design will first be conducted, followed by a cluster - randomised trial utilising both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods.

In the many responses to Gov. Cuomo's efforts to introduce formal and public teacher evaluation, teachers, union leaders and educational leaders have offered little but delaying tactics, such as more study is needed or how about conducting small trials.

One of the best ways scientists have to prove cause and effect in medicine is to conduct a randomized controlled trial, in which study subjects are randomly assigned to two groups.

In three randomized trials, treatment of chronic low back pain with radiofrequency denervation, a procedure that can be performed with different techniques including the application of an electric current to the pain - conducting nerve, resulted in either no improvement or no clinically important improvement in chronic low back pain, according to a study published by JAMA.

In some 3000 elderly people, Nir Barzilai of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, and his colleagues plan to conduct a trial in which half the subjects would get a placebo and half would get an old (indeed, ancient) drug for type 2 diabetes called metformin, which has been shown to modify aging in some animal studies.

This was caused by an erroneous and incomplete search by the manufacturer for studies on the comparator therapy; no search at all was conducted in trial registries.

Additional tests — cognitive assessments, measurement of blood markers and MRI brain scans — were conducted at the trial's outset, at 6 months and at the end of the study period.

Researchers who conduct animal studies often don't use simple safeguards against biases that have become standard in human clinical trials — or at least they don't report doing so in their scientific papers, making it impossible for readers to ascertain the quality of the work, an analysis of more than 2500 journal articles shows.

The company plans in October to conduct a separate test specifically to study the seasonal flu vaccine's effectiveness among 480 elderly participants (a demographic often encouraged to get seasonal flu shots), and Phase III efficacy trials across a larger set of demographics are scheduled to begin early next year.

Armed with the knowledge of how to study vaccines appropriately, scientists ideally should have no trouble conducting proper trials.

To investigate this, the authors conducted a study involving participants of Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Re-lease Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial (published in The Lancet in 2007 and the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008), with its cohort described by the authors as being generally representative of people with diabetes in developed countries such as Australia, New Zealand, China and nations of Europe, and also including China, a developing country.

And scientists who conduct human challenge studies, which typically involve a few dozen participants, say they have critical benefits: In addition to saving time and money, they can reveal harm caused by a potential drug or vaccine before it enters large - scale human efficacy trials.

The study conducted in Philadelphia is believed to be the first randomized controlled trial to test inexpensive interventions that restore vacant urban land and reduce violence and fear among residents.

Northfield Laboratories, Inc., in Evanston, Ill., has been conducting clinical trials for its oxygen - carrying red blood cell substitute, PolyHeme, but in May said the product failed to meet the primary goals of mortality and safety in an important phase III study.

«The current landscape of stem cell tourism should prompt a re-evaluation of current approaches to study cell - based interventions with respect to the design, initiation and conduct of U.S. clinical trials,» the authors wrote.

Wyss - Coray, whose group did most of the mouse studies that inspired the clinical trial, now plans to conduct a second, larger trial using plasma from which many proteins and other molecules have been removed.

The new study is a meta - analysis of three randomized controlled trials conducted by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (formerly Cancer and Leukemia Group B)(CALGB) with support from the NCI, Intergroupe Francophone du Myélome (IFM), and the Gruppo Italiano Malattie Ematologiche dell «Adulto (GItrials conducted by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (formerly Cancer and Leukemia Group B)(CALGB) with support from the NCI, Intergroupe Francophone du Myélome (IFM), and the Gruppo Italiano Malattie Ematologiche dell «Adulto (GITrials in Oncology (formerly Cancer and Leukemia Group B)(CALGB) with support from the NCI, Intergroupe Francophone du Myélome (IFM), and the Gruppo Italiano Malattie Ematologiche dell «Adulto (GIMEMA).

It was originally designed to advance to a Phase 3 trial among 28,000 volunteers but was scaled back because the decline in new Ebola cases made it impossible to conduct the larger study.

Many of the studies conducted are first - in - human trials of experimental drugs or drug combinations that have shown promise in laboratory studies.

The author studied the effect of vitamin E on the risk of pneumonia in a large randomised trial (Alpha - Tocopherol Beta - Carotene Cancer Prevention Study — ATBC) conducted in Finland between 1985 and 1993.

Independent of these preclinical studies, Clementia Pharmaceuticals is currently conducting phase 2 clinical trials in individuals with FOP, based on the 2011 preclinical results published by Pacifici and Iwamoto.

Yet Bennett and her team had been anxious as their study unfolded because AAV (like the early versions of engineered AdV) had previously failed to cure hemophilia in a trial conducted by their Children's Hospital colleague, hematologist Kathy High.

He analyzed the data of the randomized trial (Alpha - Tocopherol Beta - Carotene Cancer Prevention [ATBC] Study) which was conducted in Finland between 1985 - 1993 and included male smokers aged from 50 to 69 years.

The study is the largest placebo - controlled trial in older men conducted on the subject to date.

A well conducted randomized trial is more likely to produce correct results, but a less rigorous study might still satisfy a physician if the risks are low and its potential benefits are great, he says.

To get around that problem, this study used the Bradford Hill criteria: a standard tool for assessing the impact of broad - based public health interventions where it is ethically not feasible or operationally impractical to conduct randomized controlled trials.

The evaluation of THN programs is challenging: randomized controlled trials are often considered the gold standard of scientific study, but conducting trials for THN would often be unethical and fraught with difficulties given the infrequency and unpredictability of overdose.

Motivated by their previous finding of the presence of P - glycoprotein overexpression in the nasal lining of patients with CRS with nasal polyps, the study authors conducted a randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled clinical trial studying the use of low - dose Verapamil in 18 patients with CRS with nasal polyps.

The attendees developed a list of top research priorities and a research agenda for exercise in solid organ transplant, which includes the need to conduct large multicenter intervention studies, standardize measures of physical function in clinical trials, examine the benefits of novel types of exercise, and assess the effects of exercise on measures such as immunity, infection, and cognition.

The study was well done, she says, but teasing out effective treatments for social and medical problems is different from conducting a drug trial.

Yet clinical trials in children commonly go either uncompleted or unpublished, finds a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital.

Julia Lewis, MD (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine) and her colleagues in the Collaborative Study Group conducted a 441 - patient randomized clinical trial to test the potential of a compound called ferric citrate to bind phosphorus, increase iron stores, and reduce the usage of IV iron and ESAs.