Archive for the 'Clinical Trials / Drug Trials' Category


Study Of Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment In Sickle Cell Patients Halted By NHLBI

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped a clinical trial testing a drug treatment for pulmonary hypertension in adults with sickle cell disease nearly one year early due to safety concerns.
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07/29/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Clinical Trials / Drug Trials | Trackback | Comments Off

Survival Of Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) Does Not Improve With Interferon Gamma-1b Treatment

An article published Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet reports the findings of the INSPIRE trial on treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) with interferon gamma-1b (Ifn-g1b). It is written by Professor Talmadge E King Jr, of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA and his team. Results show no improvement in survival compared with placebo. There is no effective treatment for IPF which is a fatal disease.
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06/30/2009 | Respiratory & Asthma - Clinical Trials / Drug Trials | Trackback | Comments Off

Misleading Media Coverage Of Medicine

Media coverage of clinical trials does not contain the elements readers require to make informed decisions. A comparison of the coverage received by pharmaceutical and herbal remedy trials, reported in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has revealed that it is rarely possible for the lay public to assess the credibility of the described research.
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11/28/2008 | Complememntary & Alternative Medicine - Clinical Trials / Drug Trials | Trackback | Comments Off

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