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A new study has found that a noninvasive, computer-based test is at least as effective as an invasive and more expensive test in predicting a patient’s risk of sudden cardiac death.
The results of a recent clinical trial published in the Oct. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) appear to support previous findings that device treatments may be less risky than clot-busting drugs for some heart-attack patients.
AstraZeneca is stopping any further work on an investigative drug for the neurological damage caused by strokes, after it failed to show any effect compared with placebo in a Phase III clinical trial.
While one recent study shows patients implanted with stents to treat clogged carotid arteries could be at greater risk for stroke or death than those treated with surgery, inconsistent results from a number of clinical trials means the jury is still out on the real benefits and risks of stenting.
A recent independent study partially funded by Smith & Nephew "showed that detectable levels of proteins and nucleic acids were present in reprocessed single-use only arthroscopic shaver blades," the firm's endoscopy division said Oct. 19.
In the 10 years since the FDA began allowing clinical trials to be conducted under certain emergency conditions without the informed consent of participants, the agency has OK’d 21 exemptions out of 56 applications, said Sara Goldkind, senior bioethicist at the FDA’s Office of Critical Path Programs.
Device clinical trial sponsors must word their agreements with investigators and trial sites even more carefully in certain areas than sponsors of drug trials, according to a speaker at a recent FDA Clinical Trial Requirements Conference in Minneapolis.
The NIH will award almost $700 million in research grants to 12 academic health centers between Oct. 1, 2006, and June 30, 2011, about $100 million of that in the nine-month period ending June 30, 2007.
The NIH will award almost $700 million in research grants to 12 academic health centers between Oct. 1, 2006, and June 30, 2011, roughly $100 million of that in the nine-month period ending June 30, 2007.
A nine-year-old federal program meant to stimulate pediatric clinical trials is only partially successful as companies fail to disseminate all results, according to an article in the Sept. 13
edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).