Tag: clinical trials
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Online App Encourages Abstinence in Alcohol Addiction
Results from a clinical trial show users of an online abstinence training app are less likely to relapse in alcohol consumption than sham training app users.
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Crispr Therapy Shown to Help Blood Disorder Patients
Interim clinical trial results show an experimental treatment derived from gene-edited stem cells relieves symptoms in patients with severe inherited blood diseases.
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Trial Shows Covid-19 Vaccine Safety, Immune Response
First results from an early-stage clinical trial show an RNA-based vaccine to prevent Covid-19 infections is safe and produces a complex immune response.
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Covid-19 Drug Biotech Raises $300M in IPO
A company developing a treatment for Covid-19 infections taken as a tablet instead of infusion issued its initial public offering, or IPO, for common stock.
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Covid-19 Antibodies Cut Viral Load, Medical Visits
Interim results from a clinical trial show a synthetic antibody drug reduces viral burden and medical visits among non-hospitalized Covid-19 patients.
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200M Covid-19 Vaccine Doses Donated to Int’l Effort
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline are offering 200 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine for a project devoted to making vaccines equitably available worldwide.
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Better Precision Medicine Outcomes Shown for Leukemia
Clinical trial results show a strategy that first tests for genomic mutations to guide treatments results in better outcomes for patients with acute myeloid leukemia.
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Lilly, NIH Halt Covid-19 Antibody Therapy Trial
Drug maker Eli Lilly and National Institutes of Health are stopping a clinical trial testing a synthetic antibody to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients.
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Precision Drug Trial Shows Solid Tumor Shrinkage
Partial results from a clinical trial show a drug to stop specific cancer-causing proteins shrinks advanced tumors in some patients across several tumor types.
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Roche Gains Covid-19 Oral Drug Candidate
Global drug maker Roche Group is acquiring an experimental antiviral therapy for Covid-19 infections taken as a oral drug, rather than an infusion.