Urovant Sciences (NASDAQ:UROV) claimed victory in its press release today with the headline noting "positive" top-line data for its phase 3 study testing vibegron in patients with overactive bladder.But investors rightfully looked past the...
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MONDAY, March 18, 2019 -- For women who need relief from bladder control problems, behavioral therapies are a better bet than medication, a new research review finds.
In an analysis of 84 clinical trials, researchers found that overall, women were...
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A one-off operation that targets the nerves connected to the kidney has been found to maintain reduced blood pressure in hypertension patients for at least six months, according to the results of a clinical trial.
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PhaseBio shares more than doubled on Monday after the firm released results from an early-stage clinical trial of its antiplatelet reversal agent.
An important part of advancing medical research and drug development is making participation in clinical trials easier and more inclusive. To develop treatments that work on men, women, and children of all ages and different ethnicities we need to...
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(MedPage Today) -- More vedolizumab patients achieved clinical remission, mucosal healing in VARSITY trial
A pilot clinical trial has found that a new type of electrical stimulation therapy can be very effective in treating the symptoms of major depression.
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Researchers have begun pilot clinical trials using an imaging technique called Raman spectroscopy, which offers promise for guided cancer treatment and could spare some patients of the toxic side effects of ineffective radiation therapy.
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In a phase 3 clinical trial, tenapanor significantly lowered elevated blood phosphate in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis, resulting in an average reduction of 1.0-1.2 mg/dL over eight weeks. Side effects were largely limited to softening...
Eighty-six percent of individuals who entered HIV care soon after diagnosis maintained viral suppression after 48 weeks during a clinical trial. Participants in the clinical trial, called iENGAGE, achieved viral suppression in an average of just 63...
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New research lays foundation for upcoming clinical trial for patients with epidermolysis bullosa.
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Fasting-mimicking diet holds promise for treating people with inflammatory bowel disease, a new study finds. A clinical trial shows reduction of inflammation in humans and in mice, the diet appears to reverse Crohn's and colitis pathology.
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A new randomized clinical trial investigates whether different dietary interventions could help overweight people and people with obesity avoid depression.
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The latest clinical trial flop from Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX) wasn't nearly as bad as the failure it announced in 2016, but it was still a long way from what most vaccine developers would consider a success. There's still a glimmer of hope, though,...
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We need 'smarter ' trial targeting, says Dr Perry Wilson, as seen in recent studies of oral anticoagulants in cancer patients. Medscape
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A series of clinical trials have concluded that a new therapy, alongside a novel method of delivery, could be effective in treating Parkinson's disease.
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An experimental drug could offer hope for restoring damaged brain cells in Parkinson's patients, scientists said on Wednesday, although they cautioned that a clinical trial was not able to prove the treatment slowed or halted the neurodegenerative...
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Researchers have created a proof-of-concept method for ensuring the integrity of clinical trials data with blockchain. The system creates an immutable audit trail that makes it easy to spot any tampering with results -- such as making the treatment...
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On Saturday, for the first time in its roughly two-year history, e-cigarette company Juul presented some data from a clinical trial of its devices.
The company has a reputation for aggressively marketing its dessert-flavored nicotine products to...
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In November 2018, a group of researchers in China divulged what scientists around the world feared: In what many researchers now call an ethically dubious clinical trial (which would never have been done in the U.S.), they had edited a set of human...
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