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FDA Approves Human Hookworm Vaccine for Phase I Safety Trials

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Use of PET can reduce, may eliminate more strenuous drug development trials with animals

A number of articles explore the use of positron emission tomography (PET) and small animal imaging--nonsurgical techniques that open the door to understanding and treating human diseases--in the April issue of the Society of Nuclear Medicine's Journal of Nuclear Medicine. A major benefit of small animal imaging "is the ability to carry out many studies at various time points with the same...

Moffitt-USF head toward first human trials of anti-cancer drug that targets protein AKT

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, working in partnership with the University of South Florida (USF), has discovered a new use for an old, previously discredited anti-cancer drug that could add another weapon in the arsenal against several cancers, including tumors of the breast, ovary, colon, skin and prostate. The compound, tricirbine, was tested at various cancer cen...

Why were the HIV prevention trials in commercial sex workers abandoned?

One promising approach to help stem the global HIV epidemic is to give commercial sex workers an HIV medication (such as the drug tenofovir) before they have high risk sex in the hope of reducing their chances of becoming infected, an approach called "pre-exposure prophylaxis" (PREP). But activist groups, including Act Up-Paris have "halted the progress of at least two important clinical trials o...

Kenya halts first field trials of GM maize

Kenyan authorities began destroying the country's first genetically modified (GM) maize growing in open field trials. Wilson Songa, Kenya's agriculture secretary and chair of the Natio...

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What patients want: A story of choice, clinical trials & evidence-based medicine

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ZyStor seeks to raise $15M for clinical trials

ZyStor, which also presented at the 2006 forum, would like to raise an additional $...

Prodesse begins clinical trials for flu virus detection

The product, known as ProFlu+, is being billed as a more complete and user-friendly test to help laboratories detect and differentiate several flu viruses, including...

ConjuGon raises $3.3 million to fund clinical trials

The Madison-based ConjuGon will use the capital for clinical trials of its treatment for the infections of large wounds, and to fund the developm...

Cancer-fighting agent heads for clinical trials

If the compound is found to be safe and effective in forthcoming clinical trials, it could treat forms of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma...

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Man against HIV – new vaccine ready for human trials

A new vaccine called the TAT vaccine has been developed in Italy as the latest and most exciting HIV vaccine to date. And more importantly it has had a 71% success rate when tested on monkeys. This vaccine is now ready for human testing and this may be the brightest hope for mankind against the destructive HIV. Dr.Barbara Ensoli, Head of the Department of Virology at Italy’s National Hea...

How do patients benefit of clinical trials

Many patients undergoing trials of new cancer treatments do not realise that future patients are more likely to benefit than themselves.There can be no progress in treating cancer - or any other disease - unless there are clinical trials. Henceforth what do patients expect from a trial. Doctors in California gathered views from more than 200 patients involved in trials of new cancer treatments....

Clinical trials need to be more frank

Doctors should keep their patients informed about being paid to enrol them in a clinical trial. Post-marketing surveillance or phase 4 clinical trials - are a signicnificant part of medical research. It involves giving patients a new drug// and the family doctor reporting any problems that might arise. The post-marketing phase will involve many more patients than those who can take part in previ...

First head-to-head trials of once weekly Fosamax and Actonel therapies

The drug major Merck has launched the first two head-to-head clinical trials that compare the efficacy and tolerability of Fosamax (alendronate) once weekly 70mg and Actonel (risedronate) once-weekly 35mg. Fosamax and Actonel, both bisphosphonates indicated for the treatment of osteoporosis in post menopausal women are co-marketed by Aventis and Procter & Gamble through the Alliance for// Better...

The Indian Government has given the nod to conduct Human volunteer trials inorder to develop preventive AIDS vaccines

The Indian Government has recently approved human volunteer trials for the country's second preventive// vaccine against HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS. A vaccine for the developing world, where anti-retroviral drugs are out of reach for millions of HIV-infected people, would be the ultimate prize in the fight against AIDS. But efforts to find one have been hampered by the virus's ability to m...

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TransPharma Medical Announces Positive Results of Phase I Clinical Trials for Transdermal Delivery of hPTH (1-34) for Osteoporosis Treatment

LOD, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 9, 2007 - TransPharma MedicalLtd., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the developmentand commercialization of drug products utilizing a proprietaryactive transdermal drug delivery technology, announced todaypromising results of its phase I clinical trials demonstrating thesafety and pharmacokinetic profile of its ViaDerm-hPTH (1-34)product for th...

Pro-Pharmaceuticals Updates Progress of Clinical Trials & Davanat 505 (b)(2) Filings

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 9, 2007 - Pro-Pharmaceuticals,Inc. (Amex: PRW), a company "Advancing Drugs ThroughGlycoscience(R)", today updated the progress of its Phase IIclinical trial for first-line treatment of metastatic, unresectablecolorectal cancer patients who are unable to tolerate irinotecanand/or oxaliplatin, and its Phase II clinical trial for first-linetreatment of bilia...

TMC125 Showed Significant Virologic Response at Week 24 in Treatment-Experienced HIV Patients With NNRTI Resistance in Phase 3 Trials

Data Published in The Lancet on TMC125, an Investigational NNRTIfrom Tibotec YARDLEY, Pa., July 05, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Data from twoongoing Phase 3 studies (DUET-1 and DUET-2) showed significantlymore HIV-1 adult patients with documented non-nucleoside reversetranscriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) and protease inhibitor (PI)resistance reached an undetectable viral load (defined as achievingco...

From Clinical Cancer Research: Rethinking Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

PHILADELPHIA, July 3, 2007-- Ongoing therapeutic cancer vaccinetrials have yet to show evidence of vaccines spurring apatient’s immune system to shrink tumors -- yet patients whoreceive these vaccines in trials tend to live longer and respondbetter to subsequent treatment. In the July 1 issue of ClinicalCancer Research, a journal of the American Association for CancerResearch, a te...

Advanced Life Sciences to Host Conference Call to Discuss Data From Cethromycin's First of Two Phase 3 Pneumonia Trials

CHICAGO, June 29, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced LifeSciences Holdings, Inc. , today announced that it will host aconference call and live webcast at 10:00 am (EDT) on Monday, July2, 2007 to discuss data from Trial CL-06, the first of two pivotalPhase 3 clinical trials designed to assess the safety andeffectiveness of cethromycin, a novel once-a-day antibiotic, forthe treatment...

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