News tagged with randomised clinical trials
Male circumcision reduces HIV risk: No further evidence needed
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Three recent African trials support male circumcision for reducing the risk of contracting HIV in heterosexual men. After including new data from these trials in their review, Cochrane Researchers have changed their previous ...
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Doubts cast on credibility of some published clinical trials
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are considered the 'gold standard' research method for assessing new medical treatments. But research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Trials shows that the design of a r ...
Sorafenib significantly improves the length of time before breast cancer worsens
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Berlin, Germany: One of the first of a series of trials to investigate the use of sorafenib - a targeted anti-cancer drug - for the treatment of advanced breast cancer has found that if it is combined with the chemotherapy ...
Drugs may not delay onset of dementia; and more
Nov 27, 2007 |
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Researchers have examined the evidence in favour of giving people considered to be close to developing dementia the drugs that are most commonly used to treat the condition itself. They have concluded that these drugs (cholinesterase ...
New criteria for measuring tumor size and progression will help ease workloads in clinical trials
Jan 20, 2009 |
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The first, formal revision of specific guidelines, known as RECIST, used by clinicians to measure tumour size and response to treatment, has been published today (Tuesday 20 January) in a special issue of the European Jo ...
Use folic acid to cut heart disease, say experts
Nov 27, 2006 |
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The scientific evidence is strong enough to justify using folic acid as a cheap and simple way of reducing heart disease and strokes, say researchers in this week’s BMJ.
New prognostic model for traumatic brain injury
Aug 05, 2008 |
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In a research article published in this week's PLoS Medicine Ewout Steyerberg (of the University Medical Center Rotterdam) and colleagues describe the development and validation of new prognostic models for traumatic brain ...
Early detection of second breast cancers halves women's risk of death
Mar 17, 2009 |
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A group of international researchers has found the first reliable evidence that early detection of subsequent breast tumours in women who have already had the disease can halve the women's chances of death from breast cancer.
An aspirin a day keeps colon cancer away
May 11, 2007 |
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An Oxford University study shows that taking a 300mg tablet of aspirin a day for five years can reduce the risk of colon cancer by 74 per cent in the subsequent 10-15 years, or by 37 per cent overall.
Race not reported in over 50 percent of randomized clinical trials for cardiovascular disease
Oct 13, 2009 |
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A new study recently published online by the American Heart Journal shows that more than half of all randomized clinical trials, or RCTs, for cardiovascular disease are not reporting vital information about the study populations ...
Detecting overall survival benefit derived from progression-free survival
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Overall survival (OS) may be a reasonable primary endpoint when the median survival postprogession (SSP) is less than 6 months, but it is too high a hurdle when SPP is longer than 12 months, according to a new study published ...
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