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Targeted Genetics Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2007 ...  -  25 Mar 2008
CNNMoney.comMore specifically: -- In February 2007, the Company reported results from the complete Phase I clinical trial of the investigational HIV/AIDS vaccine

Strong Trend of Effectiveness Indicated in Lipid Sciences' First ...  -  25 Mar 2008
CNNMoney.comLipid Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIPD) announces the results of its recently concluded HDL Selective Delipidation clinical trial. The data from the trial show

(2º) Clinical Trial for New Diabetes Drug  -  25 Mar 2008
InfoBolsa,Clinical Trial for New Diabetes Drug 25/03/2008 11:30:00 Business Wire Clinical trial results, including more than 1500 patients treated in phase III trials

Anesiva Commences Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Adlea(TM) for Reducing ...  -  25 Mar 2008
CNNMoney.com (press release)SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anesiva, Inc. today announced the initiation of a pivotal Phase 3 trial evaluating Adlea(TM)

Array BioPharma Initiates Phase 1 Clinical Trial For ARRY-614 ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Trading Markets (press release),...for ARRY-614 with the US Food & Drug Administration and initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial for ARRY-614, a potent, orally active p38 / Tie2 inhibitor.

Anacor Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Results from Phase 2a ...  -  25 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),PALO ALTO, Calif., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Anacor Pharmaceuticals today announced results from a Phase 2a clinical trial of AN2728, an investigational

NuRx Pharmaceuticals Doses First Patient In Phase I Clinical Trial ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Medical News Today (press release),NuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: NURX) announced it has dosed the first patient in a Phase I clinical trial of the first-in-class rexinoid

Cytokinetics to Present Non-Clinical Data on Cardiac Myosin ...  -  25 Mar 2008
CNNMoney.comGSK began a Phase I clinical trial with GSK-923295 in 2007. All of these drug candidates have arisen from Cytokinetics' research activities and are directed

Accentia Biopharmaceuticals Announces Results on Primary Endpoint ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Wire (press release),Based on the initial unblinded clinical trial data, it appears that the control lavage unexpectedly achieved some therapeutic effect (as opposed to a simple

Clinical trial data disappears in NIH laptop heist  -  25 Mar 2008
FierceBiotech,..."If somebody does not want to share the fact that they're in a clinical trial or the fact they've got a heart disease, this is very, very serious.

GlobeImmune Announces Initiation of a Phase 2a Clinical Trial of ...  -  25 Mar 2008
PR-USA.net (press release),GlobeImmune, Inc. announced today the initiation of a Phase 2a clinical trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) to evaluate GlobeImmune's

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) Announces Enrollment Complete in ...  -  25 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),About the EXTEND (PIX301) Clinical Trial The EXTEND clinical trial is a phase III single agent trial of pixantrone for patients with relapsed,

Allon Reports 2007 Audited Operating Results and Updates 2008 Plans  -  25 Mar 2008
PR-USA.net (press release),The Company said it will launch a Phase IIb clinical trial in 2008 in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's patients to follow up on positive (Phase IIa) human

Hospitals that do clinical trials give better care  -  25 Mar 2008
CTV.ca,...in clinical trials had a lower adherence rate to the program's guidelines than hospitals that had low or high clinical trial participation rates.

Family wants Md. firm to provide lifeline for mom  -  25 Mar 2008
Baltimore Sun,Company executives say they cannot help until they get more clinical trial information -- maybe not even then. GenVec's entire drug supply is committed to

Cardiac Survival Better in Hospitals Hosting Clinical Trials  -  25 Mar 2008
MedPage Today,The mortality rate was 3.5% at hospitals with strong clinical trial participation compared with 4.4% at facilities with low participation and 5.9% at those

Micromet Establishes New Scientific Advisory Board for Its BiTE ...  -  25 Mar 2008
CNNMoney.com (press release)Adecatumumab is being developed by Micromet in collaboration with Merck Serono in a phase 1b clinical trial evaluating adecatumumab in combination with

Medivation Announces Senior Management Promotions  -  25 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),..."Drs. Bronson, Hirmand and Mordenti's knowledge of the clinical trial and regulatory process will be invaluable as we move Dimebon forward in Alzheimer's

Micromet Establishes New Scientific Advisory Board for Its BiTE ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung),Adecatumumab is being developed by Micromet in collaboration withMerck Serono in a phase 1b clinical trial evaluating adecatumumab incombination with

Phase Forward and Harvard Clinical Research Institute to Jointly ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Wire (press release),Phase Forward’s products and services have been utilized in over 10000 clinical trials involving more than 1000000 clinical trial study participants at over

Bio-Imaging Acquires Phoenix Data Systems, a Leading Provider of ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Trading Markets (press release),Together Bio-Imaging and Phoenix Data Systems will offer a broader set of clinical trial services to its pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers.

EPIX Pharmaceuticals to Present Phase 2a Alzheimer’s Data at ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Wire (press release),EPIX previously announced the compelling results of a Phase 2a clinical trial of PRX-03140 as a single agent and in combination with Aricept® in patients

When Should Children With HIV Infection Start On Anti-HIV Medications?  -  25 Mar 2008
Science Daily (press release)Both authors point out that there has never been a clinical trial conducted on determining when to start antiretroviral medications in children,

Craig M. Pratt, MD, Joins NewCardio’s Scientific Advisory Board  -  25 Mar 2008
Business Wire (press release),He continues to serve as a consultant to the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and serves on numerous national and international clinical trial

Advances in the Management of Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer  -  25 Mar 2008
Cancer Consultants,...[27] The TRIBUTE trial was a Phase III clinical trial that randomly allocated over 1000 patients with advanced NSCLC to receive chemotherapy with or without

Daily HIV/Aids Report  -  25 Mar 2008
AllAfrica.com,Merck in September 2007 announced it had halted a large-scale clinical trial of its experimental HIV vaccine after the drug failed to prevent HIV infection

Parlay Entertainment Signs 2-yr Deal To Become Platinum Sponsor Of ...  -  25 Mar 2008
RTT News,3/25/2008 2:49:23 AM Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTIC) on Tuesday announced that enrollment is complete in the phase III EXTEND (PIX301) clinical trial of

Daily Cancer News  -  25 Mar 2008
Cancer Consultants,...[10] Unfortunately, in this clinical trial, there were no clinical responses, though there were a few patients with prolonged stable disease (up to 21

New treatment for heart failure approved by Health Canada  -  25 Mar 2008
Canada NewsWire (press release),Diovan(*) is supported by one of the world's largest and most innovative clinical trial programs with an ARB involving over 50000 patients including over

Evalve Announces CE Mark Approval of the World's First ...  -  25 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),Center of Indiana in Indianapolis, at the SCAI-ACCi2 annual meeting in Chicago as part of the late-breaking clinical trial program on Tuesday, April 1.

Reality Check for the War on Cancer  -  25 Mar 2008
WebMDA phase III clinical trial evaluates how a new treatment compares to a standard treatment. It is called a randomized clinical trial because study

pSivida Release: DSMB Again Supports Continuation of the Phase III ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
WELT ONLINE,The FAME DSMB, a group comprised of four ophthalmologists and a biostatistician, met to review the Medidur FA Phase III clinical trial data.

Depomed Doses First Patient in New Phase 3 Clinical Trial of ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Business Wire (press release),The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 clinical trial will enroll approximately 450 patients with PHN. Patients will be randomized into

DSMB Again Supports Continuation of the Phase III Clinical Trial ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Genetic Engineering News (press release),The FAME DSMB, a group comprised of four ophthalmologists and a biostatistician, met to review the Medidur FA Phase III clinical trial data.

NuRx Pharmaceuticals Doses First Patient in Phase I Clinical Trial ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release),Inc. today announced it has dosed the first patient in a Phase I clinical trial of the first-in-class rexinoid receptor (RXR) agonist NRX4204.

Trius Therapeutics Raises $30 Million In Series B For Advancing ...  -  Mar 23, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),...(RTTNews) - Monday, drug maker Trius Therapeutics, Inc. announced raising about $30 million Series B funding for advancing the clinical trial of

Trius Therapeutics Raises $30 Million In Series B For Advancing ...  -  Mar 23, 2008
RTT News,3/24/2008 1:17:57 AM Monday, drug maker Trius Therapeutics, Inc. announced raising about $30 million Series B funding for advancing the clinical trial of

Uganda: Country to Host TB Vaccine Trials  -  Mar 24, 2008
AllAfrica.com,...scientific partners in Cambodia, India, Kenya and Uganda to develop additional clinical trial sites," Mr Sadoff said in a December 3, 2007 communication.

MAP Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive Results From Comparative ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
PR Newswire (press release),The clinical trial was a randomized, open label, cross-over study evaluating the pharmacokinetic profile of two doses of UDB given twice daily in 32 adults

Vermillion ovarian tumor test does well in clinical trial  -  Mar 20, 2008
Bizjournals.com,Vermillion Inc. reported positive early results from a clinical trial of its triage test for ovarian tumors. The Fremont company's test, called the ovarian

New Clinical Trial Mandate Poses Concerns for Drug Firms  -  Mar 21, 2008
BioWorld Online,By Donna Young Reports that clinical trial data were being suppressed led Congress last fall to pass legislation requiring drugmakers to submit study

MannKind Corporation Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript  -  Mar 24, 2008
Seeking Alpha,We initiated our first clinical trial program for Technosphere GLP-1, our second program candidate for the treatment of diabetes. In this study we observed

All-Natural Solution for Diabetes--New Clinical Trial  -  Mar 22, 2008
PR-USA.net (press release),The results of a breakthrough clinical trial clearly show that a powerful combination of herbal extracts and antioxidants dramatically and safely reduces

Nereus Pharmaceuticals Initiates Clinical Trial of NPI-2358 in Non ...  -  Mar 21, 2008
Genetic Engineering News (press release),This study follows on positive outcomes in a Phase 1 single-agent clinical trial assessing the safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) and

Targacept starts new clinical trial The Business Journal of the ...  -  Mar 17, 2008
Bizjournals.com,Targacept has launched a new clinical trial of a drug that it hopes will improve treatments for major depressive disorder, also known as MDD.

Genaera: Partner MedImmune begins fourth Phase 2a asthma therapy trial  -  Mar 18, 2008
CNNMoney.comMedImmune has started the clinical trial of MEDI-528, a monoclonal antibody targeting interleukin-9 in patients with asthma, Genaera said.

Phosphagenics to start trial of TPM/insulin system on Type 1 ...  -  Mar 19, 2008
Forbes,LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Australian biotechnology company Phosphagenics Ltd said it has received ethics approval for a Phase 2 clinical trial of its

Seattle Genetics Initiates SGN-33 Clinical Trial in Combination ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
Earthtimes,...(Business Wire) Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) announced today that it has initiated a phase I clinical trial to determine the safety profile and

Abbott Labs' bioabsorbable eluting stent clinical trial shows ...  -  Mar 14, 2008
CNNMoney.com14, 2008 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) -- A clinical trial of Abbott Laboratories' bioabsorbable drug eluting stent for the treatment of coronary

Interim Analysis Of Phase 2 Clinical Trial In Onychomycosis ...  -  Mar 21, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),NanoBio Corporation has announced that it has seen promising results from an interim analysis of its phase 2 study of NB-002, a topical lotion for

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