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Video: Femara(R) First Aromatase Inhibitor to Indicate Survival Benefit Versus Tamoxifen When Taken for Five Years After Breast Cancer Surgery

... censored analysis excluding patients after they crossed over to Femara, reduction in risk of death was ... 25% of patients in the tamoxifen arm selectively crossed over to Femara therapy after the tamoxifen arm ... one quarter of those patients selectively crossed over to Femara treatment. The other three ...

Diverse Approaches to Alzheimer's Therapies Continue to Show Progress at ICAD

... the study. Patients originally on placebo for 12 months who were then crossed over to Dimebon on the OLE phase also stabilized across all key measures ... depressed mood/sadness. "People initially treated with placebo and then crossed over to Dimebon did not show the same level of benefit as those people who ...

REMICADE-Treated Patients Experienced Rapid and Substantial Improvement in Psoriasis in Critical Regions of Body

... maintenance treatments every 8 weeks. Patients in the placebo group were crossed over at week 24 to receive REMICADE 5 mg/kg at weeks 24, 26 and 30, then ... during the induction phase. Patients in the placebo group were crossed over at week 16 to receive REMICADE 5 mg/kg at weeks 16, 18 and 22, then ...

Schering-Plough Announces Results of the Early ACS Trial

... not administered pre-PCI, the initial infusion was continued unchanged for 18-24 hours post-PCI. If a thrombotic complication occurred after the wire crossed the lesion, investigators could request a bailout PCI kit containing bolus therapy opposite to initial treatment assignment. For patients ...

Prescient Medical Achieves Milestones in Clinical Studies of vProtect(TM) Luminal Shield

... first-in-human clinical trial for the vProtect(TM) Luminal Shield, conducted at the Corbic Research Institute in Colombia. The Shield successfully crossed all target lesions and was safely implanted in all 30 patients, with a technical success rate of 100%. No procedural or in-hospital complications ...

Poniard Pharmaceuticals Announces Final Top-Line Results from Phase 1 Trial Demonstrating Positive Bioavailability with Oral Picoplatin

... were randomized to a single dose of either intravenous (120 mg/m squared) or oral picoplatin (200, 300 or 400 mg). Four weeks later, they were crossed over to a second single picoplatin dose administered via the alternative route. In the second part of the trial, patients received only a single oral ...

Medivation Presents Positive New Data on Dimebon's Long-Term Efficacy and Novel Mechanism of Action at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease

... support for its potential as a promising therapeutic to treat this devastating disease." Patients originally on placebo for 12 months who were then crossed over to Dimebon in the open-label extension phase stabilized across all key measures tested. Since these patients had declined over the previous ...

Genaera Releases Phase 1 Data and New Preclinical Data on the CNS Function of Trodusquemine (MSI-1436) at CBI Obesity Summit

... planned to begin later this year. Data were also presented from preclinical studies which demonstrated that systemically administered MSI-1436 crossed the blood-brain barrier and functionally inhibited PTP1B in the hypothalamus. In this study, rats were administered a single dose of MSI-1436 one day ...

Human Genome Sciences Reports Positive Long-Term Data for LymphoStat-B in Patients With Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

... Health System, Lake Success, NY, and Associate Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine. "We observe that patients who crossed over from placebo to belimumab after Week 52 have also shown improvement across multiple clinical measures. The durability of clinical effect and the ...

Kosan's Lead Hsp90 Inhibitor, Tanespimycin, Shows High Level of Activity in Trastuzumab Resistant/Refractory HER2-Positive Breast Cancer in a Phase 2 Trial

... Injectable Suspension product (contains no Cremophor). In addition, 4 of the patients treated initially with the Injection formulation crossed over to receive the Injectable Suspension formulation. -- For the Injection product: 18 were evaluable and 11 responded (4 PR, 4 ...

Ustekinumab (CNTO 1275) Phase 3 Data Show Long-Term Improvement Of Chronic Plaque Psoriasis

... to receive ustekinumab received 45 mg or 90 mg doses at weeks 0 and 4 followed by the same dose every 12 weeks. Patients in the placebo group crossed over to receive either 45 mg or 90 mg doses of ustekinumab at weeks 12 and 16 and every 12 weeks thereafter. The primary endpoint of the study was ...

Promising Phase 3 Trial Results Show Novel Biologic Therapy Ustekinumab (CNTO 1275) Significantly Improved Psoriasis

... to receive ustekinumab received 45 mg or 90 mg doses at weeks 0 and 4 followed by the same dose every 12 weeks. Patients in the placebo group crossed over to receive either 45 mg or 90 mg doses of ustekinumab at weeks 12 and 16 and every subsequent 12 weeks. The primary end point of the study was ...

Final Vectibix Positive Pivotal Phase 3 Trial Results In Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients Published

... of response was 17 weeks. In the BSC group 174 (75 percent) patients received Vectibix under the crossover protocol. In those patients that crossed over, the objective response rate was 10 percent. The median time to crossover was 7.0 (6.6, 7.3) weeks. The median follow-up after crossover was 27 ...

Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. Announces Top-Line Results of Its Bioequivalence Study of CPP-109 (Vigabatrin), the Company's Investigational Drug to Treat Cocaine and Methamphetamine Addiction

... additional 21 blood plasma samples were collected after dosing over a period of 36 hours. After a washout period of eight days, each participant was crossed over to receive the alternate tablet, and plasma samples were collected according to the same schedule. A total of 28 subjects completed both arms of ...

Remicade Two Year Data in Ankylosing Spondylitis Show Improvement in Spinal Mobility and Spinal Inflammation

... in disease activity score on the Assessment in Ankylosing Spondylitis Response Criteria (ASAS 20) at week 24. At week 24, placebo patients were crossed over to receive treatment with REMICADE 5 mg/kg at weeks 0, 2 and 6 and every six weeks thereafter and continued on REMICADE through the remainder ...

Eurand's Zentase Effective in Treating Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency, Studies Show

... dose titration, patients were randomized to receive Zentase or placebo over a week-long period. Following open-label normalization, all patients were crossed over to the alternative treatment arm. A determination of CFA and CNA on a 72-hour sample and under controlled diet in a hospital environment was ...

Avian (Bird) Flu: Is There a Role for Rapid Tests?

... First in 1997 and now recently, some humans in close contact with infected birds have contracted the virus. Now that the H5N1 subtype has crossed the species barrier to humans, there is concern for human-to-human transmission. Given the presumed paucity of human resistance to the H5N1 subtype, ...
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