Abgenix Reports Positive Survival Data From A Phase II Trial Of ABX-CBL In Graft Versus Host Disease
...ted todayadditional results of a Phase II clinical trial of ABX-CBL in graft versus hostdisease ("GVHD"). ...r, Colorado, presented the details of the clinical trial todayat the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. "We believe the surviv......performed the first randomized controlled clinical trial showing that a painfuland even life-threatening bowel condition called acute colonicpseudo-obstruction can be effectively treated with intravenous neostigmine. Results of the study will be published in the July 15 issue of the NewEngland Jour...ENBREL (Etanercept) Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
...injection 72 - 96 hours apart. Atwo-part clinical trial was conducted in patients ranging from 4 - 17 years ofage with active polyarticular course JRA who were refractory to or intolerant ofmethotrexate therapy. In part 1 of the study, which lasted 3 months, allpatients received ENBREL. Fifty-one of 69,......domized, open-label, multi-centered, international trial involving 888 heart-attack patients who arrived at the hospital within 12 hours of experiencing chest pain. Patients were treated with one of the following therapies: alteplase (tPA) alone or abciximab (ReoPro TM) alone of abciximab with reduced dos...Angina sufferers find significant relief with noninvasive technique
...ly, a new study has found. In the first controlled trial of the painless, non-invasive treatment known asen... treatment had been undertaken. In the multicenter trial conducted at UCSF, Harvard Medical School,Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Yale University Scho...Circulation publishes phase I study of ENBREL in patients with chronic heart failure
...h-Ayerst Laboratories began a PhaseII/III clinical trial (called the RENAISSANCE Trial - Randomized ENBREL NorthAmerican Strategy to study Antagonism of Cytokines) with ENBREL® (etanercept) inchronic heart failure patients, one of the first large-scale studies undertakento evaluate cytokine inhibition,...Men at highest risk least likely to comply with post-heart-attack exercise program, UB study finds
...P), a three-year, multicenter,randomized, clinical trial conducted in the U.S. from 1976-79. John P.Naught...s considered revolutionary25 years ago. The NEHDP trial was designed to determine if a structuredexercise program could improve long-term survival. Particip...Study suggests a drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms
...he National Institutesof Health to fund a clinical trial involving several hundred patients. "Theremaining question is whether doxycycline therapy can reduce aneurysm growth inpatients over a period of years," Thompson says. "If that proves to be the case,I would like to see everyone over 65 get an abdomin...New gene therapy may allow patients to 'grow' their own bypass around blocked leg arteries
...g arteries. Temple is participating in the trial to determine the safety andtolerability of the therapy to treat patients with severe peripheral arterialocclusive disease (PAOD), or critical limb ischemia. The therapy encodes theFGF1 gene, an angiogenic growth factor. The study is sponsored by RP......ernational,multi-center, pivotal Phase II clinical trial of CAMPATHR for the treatment of patients with B-c...hese results later this year. "The results of this trial are encouraging," said Dr. Keating, Associate Headfor Clinical Research and Professor of Medicine a......atment for the disease during the study. The MORE trial was conducted at 180 clinical centers in 25 countries (mostly inthe United States and Europe) and was designed primarily to determine the effectof raloxifene on women's bone mineral density and vertebral fracture risk. Theincidence of breast cancer a...Immune system rebounds for some children with AIDS, finds UF study
...ed on data collected during the first U.S.clinical trial of children treated with a so-called drug cocktail...effectively in replicationof the HIV virus. In the trial -- a collaborative effort of the Universityof Florida, the University of South Florida and the Natio...Alcohol researchers prove brief intervention successful in older problem drinkers
...s) is the firstU.S. randomized controlled clinical trial to test the effectiveness of briefcounseling by community-based primary care physicians in older problem drinkers. "Following on the 1997 success of the Trial for Early Alcohol Treatment (ProjectTrEAT), conducted by the same research team in problem ..."Baby check" information for parents does not affect frequency of contact with family doctors
Randomised controlled trial of effect of Baby Check on use of health services ...eassure parents about minor illness. A randomised trial conducted in the Greater Glasgow area by Thomson et al shows that routine distribution of Baby Check...Low doses of aspirin and surgery better for stroke prevention
...cal management of high-risk stroke patients. "This trial demonstrates that lower doses of aspirin work well...oplecan get the full benefit of aspirin." The ACE trial is the first randomized clinical trial to determine the best doseof aspirin for stroke prevention fo...Robotic technology to help Ohio State University heart surgeons
... begin the first clinical trial using the technologyon patients requiring a single vessel coronary bypass.Sixty patients are expected to be enrolled in the trial. "This approach offers significant ...Lowering 'bad' cholesterol as good or better than angioplasty for mild coronary artery disease
...vastatin Versus RevascularizationTreatment (AVERT) trial -- the first study to directly comparecholesterol-...coronary arterydisease were entered into the AVERT trial and that findings cannot be applied topersons with more severe disease. AVERT patients had one or t...New, less invasive repair of major artery defect
... The UNC team will soon open another clinical trial for people withabdominal aortic aneurysms that require repair. "We will again have prosthesesavailable for any patient who has an aneurysm that is anatomically correctablewith the device," Marston says. "It's definitely a technology that nee...Component of aspirin prevents antibiotic-induced deafness
...tic-induced deafness, say U-M scientists. Clinical trial under way in humans. ANN ARBOR---University of M...of thejournal Laboratory Investigation. A clinical trial currently under way at a hospital in Xi'an, China, willdetermine whether aspirin is as effective in ...Preliminary analysis of data from a clinical trial testing two candidate HIVvaccines given together s...up receiving the vaccine combination. However,the trial is neither large enough nor conducted over a long enough period oftime to determine vaccine efficacy...