Tag: clinical trials
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Trial Tests Diabetes Mgmt. Program vs. Smartphone Glucose Meter
A new clinical trial is testing a diabetes management program that includes Internet-connected glucose meters and one-on-one coaching against smartphone-enabled glucose meters alone.
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Biotechs to Develop Personal Cancer-Killing Virus Vaccines
Two biotechnology companies developing engineered viruses as cancer therapies plan to create personalized treatments for solid tumors with viruses that harness the immune system.
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Phone App Shown to Detect Serious Heart Attack
A smartphone app that monitors heart functions like an electrocardiogram, or EKG, can detect a dangerous form of heart attack, according to results of a clinical trial.
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FDA Updating Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs, Devices
The Food and Drug Administration says it’s streamlining policies for making drugs and medical devices in clinical trials or under review available for people in the U.S. with life-threatening conditions.
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Trial Underway for Inhaled Heart Rhythm Drug, Developer Raises $42M
A clinical trial is underway testing an inhaled therapy to quickly treat irregular heart rhythms, in cases where the problems occur occasionally and often resolve on their own.
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Trial Testing Smartwatch to Detect Heart Rhythm Problems
clinical trial is enrolling more than 400,000 participants to test an app written for an Apple smartwatch to detect atrial fibrillation, a form of irregular heart rhythms.
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NIH Stops Stem Cell Heart Failure Trial Over Retracted Data
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, or NHLBI, part of the National Institutes of Health is suspending a clinical trial of stem cells to regenerate new heart muscle.
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Nerve Stimulation Reduces Pain, Fatigue from Lupus
Results from a clinical trial show external stimulation of a major nerve in the body helps relieve pan and fatigue in people with systemic lupus erythematosus, more commonly known as lupus.
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Diabetes Drug Assessed Long-Term Against All Other Treatments
A new clinical trial is testing the drug semaglutide for people with type 2 diabetes against as many as 40 other diabetes treatments when used as a supplemental drug over 2 years.
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Trials Evaluating Blood Tests to Guide Cancer Treatment
Researchers in Australia are conducting clinical trials of blood tests among cancer patients to help determine the course of their treatment, including the need for chemotherapy.