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...more than 50%. That Phase 2 trial is ongoing, but the drug has shown enough promise to prompt the Food and Drug Administration to grant Medivation permission for a large-scale Phase 3 clinical trial of 1,200 patients with resistant prostate cancer, which will determine the drug's impact on survival rates...
...according to Mastronarde's study, which tracked 402 adults ages 18 or older with poorly controlled chronic asthma, the drugs had no impact on symptoms. Participants were randomly assigned to either a treatment or placebo group, and followed for six months using daily asthma diaries as well as spirometry tests and questionnaires at four-week intervals. Even among the roughly 40% of patients with confirmed GERD, the medication offered no benefit over the placebo...
...wall in pursuit of the ball, but Charlie drives up from behind and bumps the rear of Nick’s horse. Mid-momentum, caught between Charlie and the wall, Nick is thrust off his horse and flies headlong into the boards, crumpling into a fetal position before impact...
Bush administration HIV prevention and foreign aid programs have had a lasting positive impact on African nations, said former Bush administration official Jendayi E. Frazer at an Institute of Politics forum last night. Frazer, formerly the leading architect of U.S. Africa policy as U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2005 to 2009, called the initiatives she spearheaded “transformative” and said that the new administration should build on its predecessor’s success by increasing dialogue with African leaders to address the myriad health, economic, and political problems that plague the continent...
...separate organism from the rest of the body.” Athanasios I. Zavras, an associate professor of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at HSPH and HSDM with international public health policy experience in the World Health Organization, also underscored the importance of the study’s potential impact on the role of dentists. Since periodontal disease is one of the most common dental diseases and since obesity has become a global epidemic, “if we can understand the mechanism linking the two, we can potentially affect the prevention of periodontal disease and management...