Identifying the molecular causes of disease represented a major breakthrough in the history of medicine, moving the discipline from pattern recognition and therapeutic strategies based on syndromic pathophysiology to molecular mechanism and evidence ‐ based therapies derived from clinical
trials designed on the basis of molecular mechanism.
Not exact matches
In December, Tehrani signed a deal with GlaxoSmithKline that will allow the pharmaceutical giant to test at least four of its drug candidates
on a Zymeworks -
designed platform, which combines a computer simulation with a way of engineering protein molecules and allows products to be refined before they move to expensive clinical
trials.
These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation, including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers; data from clinical
trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products, including our clinical
trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed
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on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
After Abbott, he co-founded DCVC company BlueTalon, which was initially focused
on enterprise data security for data - driven clinical
trial design and population health management.
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Intelligent
Design / Creationism was put
on trial in court and their criticisms of evolution were found lacking.
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Design.
The launch of the new Hiram Walker Watermelon Sour Schnapps will be supported in both the
on premise and at off premise retail through custom
designed POS and table tents that will encourage
trial of signature watermelon recipes.
Although a considerable body of scientific evidence substantiates the positive correlation between curcumin consumption and a reduction in the risk of cancer, the paucity of suitably
designed human clinical
trials that clearly demonstrate any direct effect of curcumin
on cancer markers may prevent Health Canada from approving a cancer risk reduction claim for curcumin within the current regulatory framework.
Our study illustrates that a randomized intervention
trial with good socioeconomic information can help assess interventions
designed to improve population health not only by examining the intervention effects
on primary outcomes but also by evaluating the intervention's impact
on socioeconomic inequalities.
DF and K - TT advised
on the study
design, coordinated the study, liaised with participants, entered data, and monitored the
trial.
Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well -
designed randomized clinical
trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth)
on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and
on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.
We excluded a further 13
trials as the intervention was not
designed to support continued breastfeeding; these studies examined more general interventions in the postnatal period (Ball 2011; Barlow 2006; Barnet 2002; Black 2001; Gagnon 1997; MacArthur 2002; Peterson 2002; Pollard 2011; Ratner 1999; Rush 1991; Serrano 2010; Thomson 2009; Wiggins 2005); a further
trial by Baqui 2008 focused
on breastfeeding initiation only, rather than
on postnatal support to encourage continuation.
Declan Devane is a co-author in one of the included
trials in this review (Begley 2011) Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator
on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research
designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric services.
The motion notes that the Scottish Premier League is planning to initiate
trials and calls
on the government to recognise «improvements in stadium
design and technology mean that, with rigorous safety specifications, standing areas can be safely introduced».
And in several large - scale pharmaceutical
trials, drugs specifically
designed to elevate HDL had no effect
on heart disease risk.
Two other multi-national
trials randomized 27,438 patients to either bococizumab or placebo and were
designed to evaluate the impact of the drug
on cardiovascular outcomes, including nonfatal heart attack and stroke, hospitalization for unstable angina requiring urgent revascularization, or cardiovascular death.
«This study's results can have practice changing implications
on how future prostate cancer
trials are
designed in terms of identifying the men for these studies who are at high risk for early death due to ineffective initial treatment for their prostate cancer,» stated Anthony Victor D'Amico, MD, PhD, chief, Genitourinary Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and senior author of the study.
He says results from phase II and III
trials on these new therapies
designed to stall the disease are slated to come out within the year.
To be sure, scientists have zeroed in
on some promising vaccine - adjuvant combinations, and a few well -
designed trials are now under way.
Even Venter acknowledges that syn3.0's genome, although new, was
designed by
trial and error, rather than being based
on a fundamental understanding of how to build a functioning genome.
«With knowledge like this, we can
design clinical
trials using JAK inhibitors for SS patients based
on their JAK mutations,» said Elenitoba - Johnson.
According to Dr. Sumowski, «The significant effect of warmer weather
on cognition should be considered when
designing and conducting clinical
trials.
The determination of each efficacy level was also based
on the rigor and quantity of published studies
on the drug class: to be in Level A, for example, a class of drugs must have been supported by at least two «Class I» studies — well -
designed, double - blind, randomized, placebo - controlled clinical
trials.
Scientists are aware of their biases, and use techniques such as blind
trials to minimise them, but the pressure to get things done faster leads to some people skimping
on experimental
design, said Dr Head.
Rwanda will present safety and efficacy data
on 50 patients at the American Urology Association in May 2011, and a randomized, controlled
trial with 150 participants,
designed to compare PrePex with the conventional surgical method is currently ongoing.
The FDA already has a 6 - year - old program called the Critical Path Initiative that, according to its Web site, funds a number of research projects
on topics such as clinical
trial design.
«Part of what was exciting about the
design of this clinical
trial is that we decided early
on to accept women from a younger and generally sicker population than is typically enrolled in clinical
trials,» says Dr. Cristofanilli, who is also a researcher at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University.
In 1982 results came in from the Multiple Risk Factors Intervention
Trial, which was
designed to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by counseling an experimental group to stop smoking, lower their blood pressure and cut back
on saturated fat.
The implication is that patients should be stratified by the cause of their sepsis, and
trials should be
designed based
on that.»
Working with the pharma and biotech industries, Poirier focuses
on both performing the genetic tests in his laboratory and
designing the clinical drug
trials.
A chemical cocktail
designed to prevent pregnancy, and which may simultaneously reduce the risk of breast cancer, is to go
on trial in Britain.
Senior CRAs can become project managers, responsible for the
design and overall management of a
trial, and then
on to be programme managers or directors in charge of multiple drug
trials or of a therapeutic area.
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 Maternal Vitamin D Osteoporosis Study (MAVIDOS) is the first randomised, placebo - controlled
trial designed to measure the impact of pregnancy vitamin D supplementation
on the bone health of babies using bone density scanning.
Similar advances should allow chemists to
design new molecules
on computers instead of by lengthy
trial - and - error.
Based
on this review, they suggest a «probable» association between vitamin D levels and birth weight, dental caries in children, maternal vitamin D levels at term and parathyroid hormone levels in chronic kidney disease patients requiring dialysis, but «further studies and better
designed trials are needed to draw further conclusions.»
An expeditionary cruise aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's (SOI) research vessel Falkor leaves
on March 10 for open - ocean sea
trials of MBARI's newly -
designed LRAUVs.
For 40 days Judge John Jones presided over the intelligent
design trial in Pennsylvania and now he aims to decide by 1 January whether teaching ID in US science classes alongside evolution violates the constitutional ban
on religious indoctrination in schools.
Appel and Sacks led three earlier clinical
trials that tested ways to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, providing volunteers with carefully
designed diets and measuring the effects
on key health indicators.
Based
on these studies, the authors are
designing a clinical
trial to test whether DNA repair inhibitors, such as olaparib, are active against IDH1 - and IDH2 - mutant tumors.
The French
trial was
designed to give early treatment to children with a fatal disease, severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), caused by a mutation
on the X chromosome (ScienceNOW, 28 April 2000).
However, questions about the
design and ethics of the
trial have cast a negative light
on the field, particularly gene therapy for non-life-threatening diseases.
«Based
on the results seen with ADRCs in the PRECISE
trial, we
designed ATHENA to look at these cells as a possible treatment option for people with refractory chronic myocardial ischemia.»
Led by University of Texas Austin researcher Dr Steve Bellan, and in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the study
on the
design of CDC's vaccine
trial in Sierra Leone is published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Matthew is the author of the books Forty Days and Forty Nights, which gives his first hand account of the 2005 Kitzmiller intelligent
design trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, and also his first book,
Trials of the Monkey: An Accidental Memoir, which is a personal memoir centered
on a trip to Dayton, Tennessee to witness a reenactment of the Scopes
trial.
The work should be significant for pharmaceutical companies that
design drugs through painstaking processes and at great cost by eliminating some of the
trial and error in identifying new sites
on proteins that could be more easily manipulated to treat disease, said Rice biological physicist José Onuchic.
This includes all regulatory documents, IRB submissions, budget and contract negotiations, consenting of subjects, case management of patients while
on study, side effect management, completion of case report forms, meeting with monitors, maintaining
trial information
on Lombardi website,
design of electronic case report forms for institutional
trials.
In part 1 of this special Darwin Day podcast, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin
on February 12th, Richard Milner performs part of his one - man show about Darwin; Scientific American Editor in Chief John Rennie and Darwin descendant Matthew Chapman read from The Origin of Species; and Chapman talks about his book 40 Days and 40 Nights, about the Dover intelligent
design trial as well as about his efforts to get presidential candidates to discuss science — a project called ScienceDebate