Tag: clinical trial

June 4, 2018

A new National Cancer Institute (NCI) funded clinical trial (TAILORx) has revealed that the use of Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score can help 70% of hormone receptor (HR) positive, HER2-negative, axillary lymph node­-negative breast cancer patients to avoid chemotherapy and […]

May 3, 2018

Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are among the first in the world studying how a specific type of neurostimulator can improve rehabilitation for stroke patients. As part of the clinical trial, an electrical device called a […]

April 16, 2018

In a recent New York Times article, physician-author Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote about a clinical trial that he characterized as “beautiful,” for potentially illuminating a surprising connection between heart disease and cancer. Mukherjee is a justifiably acclaimed writer, who publishes regularly […]

January 5, 2018

An urgent question for cancer scientists is why immunotherapy achieves dramatic results in some cases but doesn’t help most patients. Now, two research groups from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have independently discovered a genetic mechanism in cancer cells that influences whether […]

November 15, 2017

Machine learning could improve our ability to determine whether a new drug works in the brain, potentially enabling researchers to detect drug effects that would be missed entirely by conventional statistical tests, finds a new UCL study published in Brain. […]

October 11, 2017

In a remarkably rapid translation of laboratory research findings into a treatment with the potential to benefit patients, UC San Francisco scientists have successfully completed a Phase II clinical trial showing that an FDA-approved antihistamine restores nervous system function in […]

September 20, 2017

A phase 1 clinical trial published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology found that radavirsen — an antisense oligomer that inhibits the production of certain influenza proteins — is safe and well-tolerated in healthy individuals. Additional studies on radavirsen’s […]

September 6, 2017

Want to know how healthy your heart is? Now there’s an app for that. In a proof-of-concept clinical trial, engineers at Caltech, Huntington Medical Research Institute, and USC have demonstrated that the camera on your smartphone can noninvasively provide detailed […]

September 22, 2016

Cystinosis is a rare disease that usually strikes children before they are two years old and can lead to end stage kidney failure before their tenth birthday. Current treatments are limited, which is why the CIRM Board today approved $5.2 […]

September 7, 2016

UT Southwestern Medical Center heart specialists will study whether electrocardiograms (ECGs) are useful in identifying Texas high school student athletes who are at risk of suffering sudden cardiac death. Student athletes and band members from two North Texas high schools […]

August 19, 2016

A recent study indicates that a new class of oral diabetes drugs may help protect patients’ kidney health in addition to lowering their blood sugar levels. The findings appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society […]

August 18, 2016

Today several pharmaceutical companies are set to meet with New York University assistant professor Jennifer Miller to find out how they scored on her soon-to-be released Good Pharma Scorecard—a comprehensive ranking that will show how effective they are at communicating […]

January 18, 2016

As more and more studies are showing, the old saying “you are what you eat” may need an addendum: “you sleep how you eat.” A small new study from Columbia University Medical Center finds that over just a few nights, […]